{"id":829,"date":"2022-09-19T09:13:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T13:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/?p=829"},"modified":"2022-09-19T09:13:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T13:13:51","slug":"down-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2022\/09\/19\/down-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Down Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several times during the past few weeks I&#8217;ve thought of adding a new post, but then I get a case of &#8220;writer&#8217;s block&#8221; and come up blank with ideas.\u00a0 Life recently has been much in the wash-rinse-repeat cycle, with work, guitar playing, exercising and similar routine activities.\u00a0 So, what to write about?<\/p>\n<p>Politics has become a horror show.\u00a0 Watching the news and listening to opinion givers makes me feel like the world has become madder than ever.\u00a0 If that&#8217;s even possible!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, and it couldn&#8217;t come at a better time, I have a long weekend coming, where I will spend time in the Adirondacks with a group of some 200 men in a retreat, where we will sing, pray, talk, share, exercise and commune together, getting back in touch with our humanity and our relationship with God.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lv.priorityone.org\/lake-champion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Lake Champion Men&#8217;s Retreat Weekend<\/a> is an activity created by an organization called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.priorityone.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priority One<\/a>, which is a ministry that ranges along the entire U. S. east coast.\u00a0 The weekend takes place on a <a href=\"https:\/\/younglife.org\/\">Young Life<\/a> camp located near Glen Spey, New York.\u00a0 The camp is now vacant, with school back in session, so the bunkhouses can provide accommodations for some 300 men.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2022 Lake Champion Promo\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIV6uAHlCaw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(The video above may not be available after the weekend is over).<\/p>\n<p>I attended my first Lake Champion weekend over ten years ago.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t know what to expect the first time, but it was such a refreshing and affirming time that I now look forward to it!\u00a0 COVID affected it, like it did everything else, and I&#8217;m led to believe attendance won&#8217;t be like it used to be, but I&#8217;m going with six or seven guys from church, so we&#8217;ll have some fellowship together (we&#8217;ll be in the same bunkhouse) as well as meeting new guys (and re-acquainting ourselves with others).\u00a0 Good food, good fellowship, great entertainment, and time away from technology and the worries of this ever-maddening world.\u00a0 Relief!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several times during the past few weeks I&#8217;ve thought of adding a new post, but then I get a case of &#8220;writer&#8217;s block&#8221; and come up blank with ideas.\u00a0 Life recently has been much in the wash-rinse-repeat cycle, with work, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2022\/09\/19\/down-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}