Getting Away

All the big questions seem a little easier to approach when we get a little perspective. Outside of the familiarity of the meeting room, the classroom and even the living room lies the kind of space that encourages the still, small voice in each of us.

For people everywhere, Shekinah is that kind of space. The Mennonites that founded it decades ago come today as family groups, study groups, and churches. Businesses convene here, non-profits build plans and committees solve problems. And somehow those problems seem a little smaller than when the seekers left the city. People from First Nations bands and government agencies keep coming back not just to get away – but to get to... to the quiet, to the beauty, to the openness of sky and spirit and mind.

Somewhere, maybe between hiking up Quill Hill and sitting around a campfire, people gain a little perspective. And somehow that makes all the difference.