Our time together on retreat was nourishing and challenging. We prayed in our bodies, we explored our core beliefs about our bodies, we lamented and held each other’s stories. In whatever way you offered yourself on retreat — sharing your own vulnerability, handing someone a tissue, walking together in silence, singing in chapel or sharing your tears — all of it was a precious gift to this community.
If you struggled with any part of this retreat, please contact us so a member of the TC Ministry Community can discuss it with you. We are in this together and we want to walk with you. Please don't hesitate to reach out. You can reply to this email to set up a time to talk.
If this retreat revealed any unprocessed trauma, addiction, or deep grief in your life, we encourage you to enter into a therapeutic relationship with a licensed counselor or therapist.
We are grateful to be on this journey together, and you are being lovingly held in prayer this quarter.
The TC19 Team
DURING THE QUARTER TC19 Community Webpage
Remember that you can always find all the dates for retreats, previous emails, reading lists, During the Quarter documents and more here on the TC19 page!
Required and Recommended Books Available Online
The books you'll need this for this quarter can be foundon the TC19 page. There are several books that Ruth mentioned during the retreat, as well as a couple others that we recommend:
Empowered to Repair: Becoming People Who Mend Broken Systems and Heal Our Communities, Brenda Salter McNeil
This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, Cole Arthur Riley
Bio-Spirituality: Focusing As a Way to Grow, Peter A. Campbell and Edwin M. McMahon
Focusing: How to Open Up Your Deeper Feelings and Intuition, Eugene T. Gendlin
Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Babara A. Holmes Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village, Barbara A. Holmes
We have added these to both the reading list and the During the Quarter document under Recommended on the TC19 page.
