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Meetings with Remarkable People - Part 2
March 12, 2025
In my mid-thirties, I was on a private retreat at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. During this part of my life, I occasionally went to this beautiful Trappist monastery when I needed clarity and comfort. I was on this particular retreat to discern something. My father had been stricken with a stroke, which altered his behavior. He was sometimes irrational and verbally aggressive, which would scare my son Ben, who was only two at the time.