🌿 RETREAT — The First Movement of Restoration.

First One of A Four‑Part Mission Series: Retreat • Reflect • Restore • Reengage

When I think of Retreat, my mind doesn’t go to cabins, mountains, or wilderness escapes. It goes back to a weekend years ago when I took my youth ministry on a retreat — a group of inner‑city teens who rarely stepped outside their neighborhoods. We didn’t travel to a forest or a campsite. We went to a prep school far from their usual environment, a place that felt like another world.

They ran across open fields.
They played football, soccer, kickball, even attempted tennis.
They swam.
They laughed.
They breathed differently.

We were served catered meals — breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner — and treated with a level of care that felt almost royal. And they loved every minute of it.

But the heart of that retreat wasn’t the activities or the food.
It was the purpose.

We gathered to grow closer to God.
Bible study.
Prayer.
Reflection.
Stillness.

The environment created the space, but the intention created the transformation.

That memory is the blueprint for what Lost in My VIBE! is building.

Our mission is simple and sacred:
Retreat. Reflect. Restore. Reengage.

Each movement is part of a four‑part series designed to guide us back to ourselves — back to purpose, back to alignment, back to the truth we’ve been carrying but haven’t had space to hear.

There’s another kind of retreat I’ve learned to honor — the one that happens in the quiet moments of my own life. When I pause, step back, and let my creativity lead me into a different kind of space.

Drawing, sketching, shaping a Guide, choosing colors, building a world — these aren’t just artistic tasks for me. They’re a form of retreat. A way of slipping out of the noise long enough to hear myself again. My art process is where I slow down, breathe, and reconnect with the deeper parts of my VIBE. It’s where I transition from the outer world into the inner one. It’s where reflection begins.

For me, creativity is a doorway.
A threshold.
A retreat within the retreat.

And that’s why Lost in My VIBE! begins here — with stepping back, stepping inward, and creating space for truth to rise.

Closing Reflection

Retreat doesn’t always require a weekend away or a change of scenery. Sometimes it’s as simple as stepping back long enough to breathe, to create, to listen. For me, that doorway is my art — the moment I pause, pick up a stylus, and let creativity guide me inward. That’s where I retreat. That’s where I reset. That’s where I begin to hear myself again.

Now the question becomes yours:

What is the thing you use to help you step away and retreat?

Because retreat isn’t about escape.
It’s about remembering.