We carry memory. Experience. Joy. Wounds. Relationships. Longings. Patterns. The ways we learned to protect ourselves. The strategies that once helped us navigate the world. Even as something new emerges, something of the journey remains.
And perhaps the spiritual invitation is not simply to leave these things behind, but to allow them to be integrated and transformed by Love
Read MorePerhaps this is one of the ways Love works.
Quietly.
Patiently.
Transforming us from the inside out.
The evidence of spiritual formation is not perfection. It is fruit.
Read MoreIn a world shaped by noise, fragmentation, urgency, and fear, contemplative practice gently returns us to what is most true.
Read MoreWelcome to a new quarter at Stillpoint where we turn our attention to Love.
This feels like the right place to begin. Not only because I am a love practitioner, but because at its core, spiritual direction is a loving practice. It is the practice of deep listening and sacred witnessing. It is seeing the Divine, Love, in another and gently helping them to see it too.
Read MoreAs I step into my role as Executive Director of Stillpoint, I am not arriving with answers. I am arriving as a listener. A listener to Spirit, to this community, to the stories that have shaped Stillpoint over more than four decades, and to what is quietly emerging among us now.
Read MoreOn behalf of the Board, it is with deep joy that I bring wonderful news! After a thorough and prayerful process led by our Executive Director Search Committee, Stillpoint has appointed Jasmine Bellamy to serve as our next Executive Director.
Read MoreThe world is in such need of compassion and love right now. Stillpoint’s work feels more needed than ever. This sacred work of nurturing pathways to wholeness through contemplative living, faithful practice, and spiritual activism. The work of creating and offering spaces, individual and collective, for those seeking deeper connection with Divine Mystery. The work of holding a community that is open, inclusive, and enriched by many spiritual traditions. The work of forming deeply grounded spiritual directors and companions.
Read MorePlease join me in offering Daniel a warm Stillpoint welcome and deep gratitude as he steps into this role of service and leadership among us.
Read MoreThere I stood, feet on the sacred ground of Ghost Ranch – red dirt, ancient rock, and desert shrubs. For four years, I heard story after story about this land and the imprint it left on those who visited. It is often described as a thin place, and our Stillpoint Ghost Ranch faculty even speak of the land itself as a significant teacher to those drawn to our programs. I have sorted through many pictures of this land, yet it is true, you can’t fully grasp its beauty until you stand among the 130-million-year-old mesas beneath the breathtaking vastness of the sky.
Read MoreWe write today with deep gratitude and joyful news.
Read MoreThat small burning ember deep in my soul was ignited by the very breath of God and it revealed to me that I was not dead. It was a spiritual awakening a long time in the making. That spiritual ignition in my belly that day was the fuel that propelled me forward into a new way of life – one day at a time.
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