Getaway with God: The Everywoman's Guide to Personal Retreat - Softcover

Suk, Letitia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0825444152 ISBN 13: 9780825444159

Publisher: Kregel Publications, 2016

Synopsis

What if a simple day away could transform your life?

Does spending time with God sound like just one more thing to check off an ever-increasing to-do list? How are you supposed to fit in anything that threatens to be more time-consuming? Too often there's simply no room to experience the intimacy, grace, and peace that God offers us.

Getaway with God does more than invite you to step away from life's pressures to take a personal retreat. It shows you exactly why you must--for your sake and for your family's.

With grace and warmth, Letitia Suk provides step-by-step guidance and the necessary tools to enable any woman on any budget to plan time away, whether it's a quick, half-day break or a weeklong time of restoration. You'll find detailed steps for preparation, including descriptions of different kinds of retreats and how to choose the best one for you, and you'll learn ways to bring the renewal you experience home with you. Practical appendixes identify retreat centers nationwide and provide exercises and prayers to kick-start your getaway with God.

No matter what your season in life, the time for retreat is now!

"Getaway with God is a gem!"
--Karen Burton Mains, author of Open Heart, Open Home, director of Hungry Souls

About this title

About the Author:

Letitia Suk is an author, speaker, and life coach. Her previous works includes Rythms of Renewal. She regularly blogs at LetitiaSuk.com and makes her home in Evanston, Illinois.

Review:

“For every woman living a cram-jammed, depleted life, this is the book and the guide you’ve been waiting for. Getaway with God: The Everywoman’s Guide to Personal Retreat taps our deep longing for space of our own. In a world with lots of noise and little quiet, the personal retreat becomes a countercultural―and life-giving―choice. Let Letitia Suk walk you through your doubts, fears, questions, and reticence. Don’t wait. Get the book and get away with God. Your soul―and all the people in your life―will thank you.” (Jane Rubietta, international speaker, author of 19 books, including Worry Less So You Can Live 2016-10-17)

“Have you ever thought, I need to get away and take a retreat with Jesus? Then all those counter thoughts hit you: How will I spend the time? Where will I go? How can I fit anything else in? How can we afford it? Letitia Suk, out of the rich meditative practices of her life, has provided the answers to all your concerns in this wondrously meticulous guide. The book is part gentle wisdom shared by an experienced and gifted life mentor and part remarkable memoir drawn out of the author’s own life, and it addresses any and every question that could be raised by those of us who think, Should do but how to? I have been stuck for two days due to weather systems trying to get home from Dallas to Chicago, but thanks to Letitia, I am making this a spiritual retreat and am now sitting in the sun with almost no one near me but Jesus. Thank you, Letitia. Getaway with God is a gem!” (Karen Burton Mains, author of Open Heart, Open Home, director of Hungry Souls 2016-10-17)

“As women, we can get so caught up in taking care of others and in our to-do lists that we lose track of nurturing the most important relationship of all―the one with God. This book is a gentle, beautiful invitation to say yes to the Lord’s invitation to come with him to a quiet place. Letitia provides step-by-step instructions to those who desire them, but also encourages women to find their own retreat path. She shares her own journey with humility and grace. It’s a book any woman at any stage of life or spirituality will learn from and savor.” (Melanie Rigney, author of Blessed Are You: Finding Inspiration from Our Sisters in Faith 2016-10-17)

About this edition

• Publisher: Kregel Publications
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0825444152
• ISBN 13: 9780825444159
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160