On Holiday with God

‘On Holiday with God’ encourages Christians to retreat from the business of modern life and continually rejuvenate your soul.

Designed as a ‘travel companion’, this book gives you everything you need to make a personal retreat in the Christian tradition, either at home or away, alone or with others.

Part 1 encourages you to:
• Listen to the Spirit,
• Pay attention to inner restlessness
• Notice our need to 'get away'
• Outlines the different types of retreats to best suit your personalities and circumstances
• And offers you 'tips for the trip':
o introducing contemplation
o praying with Scripture
o noticing God in the everyday resisting 'busyness'
o recording the journey - i.e. prayer journal

Part 2 provides a varied and imaginative range of guided spiritual exercises for your time on retreat and offers support for the unexpected things that may emerge.

Part 3 helps you readjust to 'normal life' after the retreat and to explore the question 'where next?'

Praise for Sue Pickering’s other books:
“This is quite simply the book on spiritual direction we’ve been waiting for years” – Review of her book ‘Spiritual Direction’.
“This is a gem of a book on how to lead a Quiet Day or [to find] fresh ways to experience the presence of God” – Review for her book ‘Creative Ideas for Quiet Days’.

Sue Pickering is an experience retreat guide and trusted spiritual director in her home nation, New Zealand. Sue is the Canon of New Plymouth Cathedral, New Zealand, and a Chaplin of a retirement community.