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Heather Boll, 37, was feeling the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown last spring as she tried to manage her two businesses while guiding her three young children’s distance learning at her New Germany, Minnesota, home. Her mentor suggested she spend a weekend alone with God in the woods to relieve the stress.
Boll did find relief and a chance to listen to God in solitude during her first retreat at Pacem in Terris Hermitage Retreat Center in St. Francis, Minnesota (near Isanti) in May 2020, so she has gone back — during every season since then. The quarterly retreats, she said, “keep getting better and better.”
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Seeking Silence: Retreat Centers Experience COVID Boom
Heather Boll, 37, was feeling the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown last spring as she tried to manage her two businesses while guiding her three young children’s distance learning at her New Germany, Minnesota, home. Her mentor suggested she spend a weekend alone with God in the woods to relieve the stress.
Boll did find relief and a chance to listen to God in solitude during her first retreat at Pacem in Terris Hermitage Retreat Center in St. Francis, Minnesota (near Isanti) in May 2020, so she has gone back — during every season since then. The quarterly retreats, she said, “keep getting better and better.”
Continued below.
Seeking Silence: Retreat Centers Experience COVID Boom
