Prayers Appreciated...

Tomorrow I am going on a 4 day Ignatian Silent Retreat.  This will be the first silent retreat I have ever attended, and I am so thrilled by the opportunity.  Before I got married I spent a few years seriously contemplating a vocation to the religious life as a cloistered nun, so this retreat might give me a small taste of what that would have been like.  My husband is slightly worried that I might not come home  :}  I know I will miss him and our boys within a day of being gone, so he has nothing to worry about!

But truly, I would appreciate some extra prayers over the next few days.  Please pray that I can rest in God's presence and use the quiet to hear His whisperings in my heart.  I often spend my prayer time peppering the Lord with questions and talking unceasingly about my worries and ideas that I never even give Him the chance to respond.  So please pray that I can just shut-up and listen! :)  I feel like God has been trying to lead my soul down some new paths, paths that confuse and frighten me.  But I am hoping that this retreat will give me some clarity, peace, and also some healing.

Oh, and please pray for Paul and the boys too!!!  They might need the prayers more than I do!  :)