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So when I was going through my recent post I realized that I left out some important stuff that I wanted to share with you all. July 21-24 our team left for a little town in Southern Moravia for our Sonship retreat. For those of you that aren't aware of what Sonship is, it's a Bible study written by World Harvest Missions that works on helping us seeing the ways in which we sin and realizing that even though we are Christians and saved by the grace of God, we still screw up all the time and the struggles don't go away. However, it also helps us see that even though we are sinful and have no hope of Redemption apart from Jesus, that we are still the adopted children of God and when he looks at us he doesn't see our sins and imperfection, but He sees Jesus' perfection. Those of you who have been through Sonship know that it is an intense study that can really break you down, but it is also extremely helpful and no matter how hard it is to realize how broken we are, it still paints a beautiful picture of Christ's love for us.

So anyways, we left on Wednesday the 21st and rode the train through Brno to the southeast corner of the Czech Republic. We stayed at a little hotel that we pretty much had to ourselves which was nice. Moravia is a region known for their wine, especially white wine, so the little town we stayed at was surrounded by vineyard covered hills which, to say the least, was not a bad place to spend a few days. The days were spent going through our Sonship lessons together and spending quiet time reading and writing in my journal.

While we were there we had a really fun night which I have been meaning to write about. Thursday night our group visited one of the wineries and the owner of the vineyard walked us through a wine tasting of ten different bottles. 7 were white and 3 were red. It was a really awesome experience that we shared together and we had a blast sitting in a little vineyard in Southern Moravia, halfway around the world drinking excellent wine at the place where it is made. After the we did the wine tasting and ate dinner, we all received a free bottle of our favorite wine to take home.