KNOWN Retreat Recap // Interviews

Praise God for the fruit of this day. He brought a number of teens with open ears and hearts yearning for Him, and He surely spoke to them. We already have plans for another retreat like this one to take place on December 31, 2012.

For anyone who doesn't know what this is about, this was a retreat based on loveand security. Dr. Bob Schultz teaches a sort of three-fold progress of maturation. He says we first need to be secure, then we can mature, then we can be pure.

Security. Maturity. Purity.

Simple enough, right? Well most of us don't get that foundation. The foundation that we're good, we're loved, we're the beloved, we're a delight, and that He aches and longs for us and to be with us. We have to be secure. We HAVE to be.

So that's what this retreat was based on. Security and love.

There's definitely a long list of people that need to be thanked for making this retreat happen-

Roch Gernon (for his generous guidance over the past two years, and for all of the information presented during the retreat)

Fr. Ty Van Nguyen, Fr. Andre Melancon, Fr. Josh Rodrigue, & Fr. Mark Toups,
Lisa & Eric Lapeyrouse, Paula & Timmy White, and my parents, Paula & Jesse Neil,
Amanda Trahan,
Katy Ledet,
Brice Higginbotham,
Celeste Lapeyrouse, Brandy Malbrough, & Amy Pirtle,
Miranda Plaisance, Jacob Lapeyrouse, & Evan Lapeyrouse (for the interviews in this video)
And for all of my wonderful brothers and sisters that have supported this retreat through prayer, thank you.

Why restless? Why blog? Why would I ever want to do such a thing? Good question. I don't have the answer.

In all honesty, I don't know what to do when it comes to blogging, so this will most likely be a reflection of my thoughts, meditations, opinions, and insight of what has happened on a particular day, or what is going on in my life at that moment.

Why restless?

St. Augustine said in his Confessions, "You have made us for yourself, O LORD, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you."

How right he was. Our hearts were made for ultimate satisfaction with Christ! We cannot expect to be satisfied by finite people in the world today. If we search for someone that will ultimately fulfill us on Earth, we will rip either them or ourselves apart. We can't expect infinite from something finite.

So this is my inspiration - to write about our restlessness. We experience it everyday, so this should contain anything from anyday. Pretty broad, right? This is not meant to leave us hopeless, but to instill hope in us that one day we will be fulfilled and satisfied by the best Bridegroom! While here on Earth, there are things that will bring us close to being satisfied ultimately, but in the end, we need Christ more than we need anything else. Our hearts are restless until they can rest in Him.

  +to Christ through Mary,

tyler