Narrative Essay About Kaross Journey

Kairos is a religious retreat that is four days and three nights. This story begins my junior year of highschool when my best friend just got back from this trip, she told me that she could not explain what this trip meant to her, and that I needed to go on it. I decided to sign up not knowing what I was getting myself into. A few days letter I learned that she was going to be a leader on my Kairos, having my best friend on this journey with me was a blessing in disguise. This experience was the most life cherishing trip I have even been on. Kairos means, “God 's Time”, where you are at a retreat camp, without any connection to the outside world. This is a time where you can discover things about yourself that you never knew. The retreat enables you to become closer with your

The director stands up in front of the whole group of seventy young adults and explains our assignment of this trip. We were told to dig deep and discover something about our lives that we were afraid to share and share it to our group. Now you can imagine everyones mood after that, the room felt like someone was just shot in front of us, no one was moving or talking. After going through this journey with everyone on my Kairos was an amazing experience because I ended up having a new outlook on life, a positive one. After a few months passed, I got a call from the director of the retreat asking me to be a leader on the next fall Kairos. This very moment I could not even respond because my voice was shaking so much. I have never felt more proud of myself in my entire life, this feeling I felt was something I have never felt before. Being proud is an understatement, I had the blessing to watch my small group achieve breathtaking challenges that I gave them. To have seen that I have touched so many lives with just simply telling them my life story was the best moment I could have asked