Youth Retreat
2006, Ovoca
Manor
RE-THINK
RE-COMMIT
RE-BUILD
What if I told you it was all meant to be?
Would you believe me, would you agree?
Its almost that feeling that we've met before so tell me
that you dont think Im crazy when I tell your love is
here and now.
A Moment like this.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.
Some people search forever for that one special kiss.
I cant believe its happening to me.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.
Everything changes, but beauty remains.
Something so tender I cant explain.
Well I may be dreaming but til I awake..Can we make
the dream last forever?
And I'll cherish all the love we share for a moment like
this.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.
Some people search forever for that one special kiss.
I cant believe its happening to me.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.
The speed of waiting love of all.
I wanna know that you will catch me when I fall.
So let me tell you this.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this...
Some people search a lifetime for a moment like this.
Some people search forever for that one special kiss.
I cant believe its happening to me.
Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like this.
 All
my life I’ve waiting for
 I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
 Don’t you wish your girlfriend was hot
like me.
 She’s the one
 Whatever else
Have you got the Xfactor?
Youth Retreat 2006
Ovoca Manor, Co Wicklow
X
factor
 X box
 Special
 Anything else called X
 X-mas
 X-ian
Questions?
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Why are you here?
 What do you want to get out of these few
days?, fun joy laugh craic
 Reaction – first time here, unknown, here a
few times
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Duty
I’ve been here before
Disappointment?!
Do you want to get the X factor retreat?
Who are you?
– outside, inside
 What defines you?
 Identity
Worth
Identity
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Worth
 Identity
 What you are about
 Describe yourself in three words (like blind
date)
 Love and to be loved
 Purpose
 Course
 What is the most fashionable thing that the
celebrity must have? Dogs? Kids? Charity
Words to describe this
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Fulfilment
 Excitement
 Sense of purpose
 Chi kek
 keng
 Wasabi
 Awesome man
 Solid
 Cool
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Beautiful human
being
 Arrived
 This is it
 I’ve been looking for
this
 Yeah!
 At peace
Celebrity – A, B, C, Z – how to get famous –
write an autobiography!!!
 Thinness, outrageous – Jackass, jet set?!
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I want X factor in my
 House,
room that I live in
 Career
 Mate
 Girlfriend/boyfriend
 Holiday
 Career,
security, kid,
 It’s a lot about me!!!
What would people do to get it
Motivation
Sacrifice
Drive
Oomph
GOAL
Are you building your dreams
What describes your pursuit at
the moment?
 Dead
keen
 Still looking
 Anticipating
 Nearly there
 Disappointing
 Satisfied?!
 Wow
FAITH,
BELIEVE
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Is it the right building
 Is that what you are
searching for
Are you building your dreams
Looks good!
Top of the class
SECURITY
FAMILY LIFE
ABUNDANT LIFE
I want to know
what it’s all
about!!!!
Deuteronomy 28
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Good life- obedience
 Set up above all the
other nations
 Blessed in the city and
the country
 Fruit of your womb and
crops of land be
blessed
 Basket & kneading
through
Protection and safety –
wherever you are
 Enemies defeated, one
to seven
 Everything you put your
hand to.
 Lend to many and
borrow from none
 Head and not tail
 Cause blessings to
overtake you
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Deuteronomy 28
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The yuk life –
disobedience
Cursed wherever you
are
Basket and kneading
through
Children and herds,
lands
Confusion in what you
do- ruin
Ill-health, disease,
wasting disease and
inflammation
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Tough life- hardened
ground
Defeated
You come to enemy in
one direction and leave
in seven (flee)
Itch, madness,
blindness, confusion
Cannot enjoy the fruit of
your toil
Other people over you
In bondage
Promises
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Abundant life
 Peace
 Security
 Overflowing
goodness
 No lack in my life
 riches

Protection
 Identity
 I belong
 Good plans for my
life
 Wisdom
 Directions
 Victory
How near are you to your
dreams?
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Out of reach
 Ever going to get it
 Wishful thinking?!
 Believing in a lie
 Seek it
 Dull it
 Kill it
 Kill self
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Ecclesiastes
(paraphrse) once a
rich, wise,
everything he wants
did not deny himself
 Vainity oh vainity
 Wealth and looks –
happiest people
must live in
Hollywood
What describes your pursuit at
the moment?
 Dead
keen
 Still looking
 Anticipating
 Nearly there
 Disappointing
 Satisfied?!
 Wow
1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of
witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin
that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the
race marked out for us. 2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author
and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured
the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of
the throne of God. 3Consider him who endured such opposition
from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Youth Retreat
2006, Ovoca
Manor
RE-THINK
RE-COMMIT
RE-BUILD
Exercise
 How
do you show love, or express your
love for another?
 How does another show love to you?
 Put on paper. Drop it in box –
anonymous.