Pictures and Update

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Hey all!

The Seer Course was such a powerful learning experience. There were tons of exercises to make us step out of our boxes, and the teaching was thought provoking and valuable. Jim Driscoll is an amazing teacher, and we all learned so much just from spending those two days learning from him and all of his wisdom.

One of the things he said was,

"the more you use your gift, the less you'll be wrong."

-Jim Driscoll

So true! I think a lot of times we revelatory people get scared of using our gift for fear of messing up. When in reality, the more we use our gift the less we'll be wrong; it just takes practice.

Anyways, I will definitely post some pictures from the weekend but I still need to put up these overdue pics from our day of silence hike :)

the view from the top!

sledding in silence ended up being hilarious...especially when people fall.

Pinnacle Update!

The Lord is really starting to show up on the Pinnacle and within our church body. I thought I'd say a little bit about that just to keep everyone informed.

Last Tuesday the interns and a few others went up on the Pinnacle for a night of prayer, which we've been trying to do as often as we can during the week. Our prayer and intercession quickly turned into worship and adoration of the Lord. His presence got so thick that it was all we could do to just worship our Creator with words and song.

Many of the interns got words of knowledge, or visions and experiences that night and we think it's just the beginning of what's to come. We believe there is going to be an outpouring of his presence on the Pinnacle, and our job is to steward the mountain and worship the Lord with our time and praises as often as we can.

We are just looking forward to this move that God wants to bring and waiting on His timing. Waiting and watching...

I have a ton of awesome pictures from the weekend in Beverly at 'The Seer Course' with Jim Driscoll and I will make sure to put them up very soon...

Until then, friends!

-Jourdan

1st year intern

**if you have any questions regarding the Pinnacle or our intern program, feel free to contact us at ssomnh@live.com or leave a comment on this page. We'd love to answer any questions or comments you may have!

We Did It!

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Wow.



What a whirlwind of a week.

Monastic week officially ended on Friday evening, around 6pm, and let me tell you...if it was anything (besides being scary-wonderful) it was a bit of a bumpy ride. We all learned a ton and even though it was difficult to stick to all the rules at times, everybody really appreciated the simplicity of a monastic lifestyle.

At first monastic week seemed to be quite a daunting task to undertake. What with no sugars, refined flours, meats, words, and sometimes electricity, looking ahead towards monastic week was an intimidating sight to behold.

But a few days into it I think we all realized how peaceful and beautiful a monastic lifestyle could be. Not having as many words spewing out of our mouths, or even the shoveling of junk food into it, it forced us to think about the simpler things in life. Many of the things we used to rely on were no longer available to us, and it toppled down some of our life-perspectives to make room for some newer, simpler ones:

*many of the things we say aren't as significant or important as we previously thought.

*not using your laptop for 4 days won't kill you.

*silence is beautiful.

*the Lord loves to speak to us when we are in silence.

*top ramen is not a food group.

*uno in silence and candlelight is very interesting and should be done more often :)

*when we shut our mouths, the Lord opens His...and breathes life on things we thought we let die within us. New creativity then sprouts forth as an incredible fresh start.

*silence showed us how to put value on things we previously overlooked.

*Thus, we all realized how much we loved and appreciated each other, as family, as fellow interns, as leaders, and as friends...*

It was a great week.

ps. I'll be posting pictures from our monastic week soon, so be sure to stay tuned!

Many blessings,
-Jourdan M.
1st year intern

Monastic Daily Schedule

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I know that some of you have expressed interest in what our daily schedule will look like while we are doing our Monastic week, so I've decided to just put up a quick summary of what all the interns will be participating in while this Monastic theme plays out.

Here's the lowdown:

Beginning on Tuesday (yesterday)
-Meet in the morning to discuss in more depth of what silence and solitude really means, and why we are doing this Monastic lifestyle for 4 days.
-Dinner in candlelight, no electricity from 5-6pm.
-Worship on the Pinnacle

Wednesday (today!)
-Monastic morning, meditate on the 365 names of God, courtesy of John Paul Jackson's 'I Am' CD. Then practice lectio divina with one scripture for an hour.
-Monastic lunch, and another monastic meal at dinner with no electric lights from 5-9pm.

-24 hours of silence begins...NOW!

Thursday
-9am to 12 noon - still in silence, spent in meditation or whatever you feel led to do.
-Noon to 5pm - still in silence.
-Monastic dinner at 5pm where silence breaks, but still no electric lights from 5-6pm.

Friday
-9am to 12 noon - silent morning
-1-5pm work duties
-Monastic dinner, no electric lights from 5-6pm.

Then at 6pm, Monastic week is officially over!!

Saturday will be spent visiting New London's town Ski Joring competition, sledding, laughing, and eating lots of sugar and meat...if you want to, that is :)

Be blessed!
Jourdan M.

1st year intern