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AUGUST 11 - 18, 2007
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Garden Of Tears Garden Of Hope
5th Annual
SUMMER RETREAT
AUGUST 11 - 18, 2007
Anyone who has lost a loved one is invited and anyone who cares about learning
how to help the grieving may also attend
PLACE:
48942 Sheldon Road,
Chilliwack, BC CANADA
V4Z1B9
(604) 824 – 8988
RETREAT
This is a time when we abandon the way of the 'get over it' world.
A time for sharing and rejoicing and yes a time for tears.
We will have a campfire
every night another chance to share.
Camping on the grounds (free) or motel accommodations (you pay).
Just let us know so we can plan.
If you need tents, please give us enough time to borrow some for you
(with sleeping bags of course)
showers and laundry can be taken in house...
just so you all know there are facilities available at no charge!!!
Attendance is not limited to those who have had someone die because so many care about
us.
It is for anyone who wishes to attend. Death, no matter what circumstance is still death.
We do not limit attendance to murder victims..nor, do we disallow names for the wall
if they were not murder victims.
Children of all ages welcome !!!
***NOTE : Child-minding services
are NOT available
It is the responsibility of the parents to watch their own children***
The Garden of Tears is for EVERYONE!!!!
There is NO charge for this week event – other than pitching
in for the food that will be purchased if staying for the week.
RSVP. sharig@dowco.com or p_dyson@telus.net
so we can plan food, etc
Let us know of
any allergies too!!
Feel free to just drop by anytime during the retreat or any other time for that matter!!
Any questions just e-mail Shari or Patti
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So you can come and enjoy the Wonderful Wilderness of Chilliwack, BC.CANADA
The Great North-West!!!
Setting is beside the Chilliwack River, enjoy numerous wild animals..
Eagles, herons, deer, ducks, and maybe a beaver?? The National Animal of Canada.
Swimming in the river or relax in the hottub.
A great place to sit and sit ~or~ sit and chat with new friends who do understand for
the most part what you are going through.
Please subscribe to GOTGOH-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and
take part in the planning for the week.
VIEW THE GARDENS click link ~~~
http://www.familiesandfriendsofmurdervictim.com/id10.html |
Directions to the Garden :
heading East on Highway 1 take
the VEDDER ROAD EXIT (next exit past Lickman Road) the one where the Cottonwood Mall is.. ***follow Vedder Road (you will
cross Luckakuck Road by the mall – carry on a few miles) to the bridge (3 way stop sign) Chilliwack Lake Road, turn
left and follow about 7.5 KM it is the 2nd street on the right just past the ‘Pointa Vista Cafe’... the road is
Sheldon Road.. follow it around and you will see rocks on the ground that say Garden of Tears -48942 Sheldon Road. ***If coming
west on Highway #1 take Vedder Road Exit - cross over highway #1 and carry on as above..
Garden of Tears Memorial
Wall
view here
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~PEACE FIRE~
At the retreat in August, we will be having a peace fire in remembrance of all of our
loved ones. This is how I got ashes for the peace fire...
In July of 2000, Marge Cline, mom of Mike's spirit, brought the Peace Fire Program and coals
with her to Pavo, Georgia.
She got them from the Journey of the Sacred Fire, the very first
International
Peace Fire, at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, on November 9,1995. About 1500 people attended from all over the world.
The
fire burned for days. Arund Gandhi, Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, gave the keynote speech on Friday night of the conference.
Many
natural items were added to peace fires, including bark from some Of the oldest trees on earth, seeds from special plants
and bark from a thunder tree - a tree that has been struck by lighting.
Tobacco was also added to the fire. Tobacco
is used by the Ojibway Indians to give thanks and to carry thoughts, intentions and desires to the spirit world. When tobacco
is placed in the fire, the smoke becomes our connection to the world of the spirit and ultimately the great mystery.
When
the ceremony is ended, people can carried coals or ashes from the fire to their places all over the world to place in future
Peace Fires.
Someone from each new place that the Peace Fire is burned then notifies the original Peace Fire
folks at North Eastern Illinois University in Chicago where the location of these fires is tracked.
So, when you attend the retreat, know that you will carry some ashes from the fire away with
you to bring your dwelling place into the special history of the Peace Fire.
When I attended the retreat in Columbia Tennessee, I brought ashes back with me to go into
the campfire here. As the ashes mingle together, there are always some of the original ashes taken with you.
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