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Spiritual Retreat That's No Monastery |
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By STEPHEN L. PURDY WILLIAM PFEIFFER, counselor and married priest, likes to tell a well-known folk tale. ''When a young man prayed, he asked God togive him wisdom to change the world. In middle age, he sought guidance with his wife, children and friends. Upon growing old, heasked for help in changing himself. 'If I'd done that in the beginning,' the man concludes, 'I wouldn't have wasted my life.' ''
Mr. Pfeiffer believes such attention to one's inner self, guided by prayer, is the focus of his pastoral counseling at Mary's Field Retreat
Center in Hebron. He adds that it reflects a growing need for the spiritual, in counseling and our lives. It also reflects the 60-year-old's
use of anecdote and humor, in a setting characterized by an affirmation of all life, meditation and hugs.
Full Story from the NY Times
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