How Full Is Your Cup?

I like 'spiritual retreats',
I appreciate the detachment
that they relieve their attendees,
of everyday stuff of life
that wears everybody down.

Though there has to be a simplicity
to the place for it to really do it's work.

The good they do is like everything-limited.
One limit they have is that visits have be repeated
for the good they do to keep on working.

And they cannot not give folks rest
from intractable issues like long term illness,
or a tiredness of life, for which there is no respite.

But a cup that sometimes half fills and leaks
is better than one that when empties, stays empty.