Name: Journeyings with Abraham and Sarah
Start: 2026-07-31T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-08-07T10:00:00+01:00
Location: The Retreat House, Pleshey

A week of walks in the Essex countryside
Led by Tim Lee. A week of walks in the Essex countryside, reflecting on the lives of Abraham and Sarah, people who walked with God.
Starting with short easy routes, our walks will build up over the week to 8-10 mile intermediate level routes; each day’s journeying linked to Bible reflections to ponder. This is a light-hearted week of walking, conversations and time out with God. There will be a few pub lunches (not included in the price). The walks are very gentle and include plenty of pauses for prayer and reflection.
Abraham and Sarah, great heroes of faith were also humble wandering Arameans whose journeyings centred on searching for answers to big questions. In our week’s pilgrimage of walks, the invitation is to unpack their lives and make connections with our own.
“To me the stories of Abraham and Sarah are fascinating because there were so many contradictions in the story. They are held up are the father and mother of Old Testament faith. Yet they didn’t just go in a straight line to Canaan, they wandered around, made plenty of mistakes and had many false starts, their faith blew hot and cold, they had quite problematic family relationships. Yet God clung to them, and they clung to God. Their lives are not just stories, but encounters, discoveries about God and themselves. As we walk with them, I hope we’ll find that their journeys will come to life for us, and our journeys will have something new for us as well. “
Tim Lee is a spiritual director, trained in the Ignatian tradition and has led quiet days. He is a focal minister for three rural parishes in Essex; he loves walking and keeps bees. He has a particular interest in the spirituality of people for whom 'silence is not their thing'. His favourite Bible people are those like Abraham and Sarah who 'mess up' - as real people all tend to do sometimes.