The Desert Mothers and Fathers, Christian monastics of the fourth and fifth centuries, followed a custom of welcoming seekers who came to them asking for a word… of advice, of counsel, a word to take home and reflect on.

ReflectionsKrystle HartAugust 31, 2020Comment

The Sound of the Shofar

I have been reflecting back to when we began together our global pandemic journey. I remembered how it felt to read this poem. As I read it now, it seems even more relevant as this path goes farther and deeper into uncharted waters.

ReflectionsKrystle HartJuly 30, 2020Comment

Wading in the Water

The ministry of spiritual direction provides a container for the Holy in our lives to be heard. It is space to tend to our deepest longing, with another as witness and companion; brave space where we are invited to linger with our…

ReflectionsKrystle HartJune 29, 2020 Comment

Thank Offerings

One of the great gifts I have been given in my life is leading worship at a women’s jail. I feel the grief of not being there because of COVID-19, and this community is never far from my thoughts. They are always in my prayers.

ReflectionsKrystle HartMay 28, 2020 Comments

Twilight Zone

In the past weeks I have heard a variety of metaphors to describe these times. What’s your metaphor? I keep hearing the term twilight zone, and I agree. Twilight is an in-between place…

ReflectionsKrystle HartApril 29, 2020 Comments

The Still Point

In the language of faith, “it is the tears of Hagar, the Muslims, “point vierge” of the spirit, the center of our nothingness where, in apparent despair, one meets God—and is found completely…

ReflectionsKrystle HartMarch 26, 2020 Comment

Tell Me What You Know

Good spiritual teaching or spiritual companionship of any kind, Newell reminded us, is not about dispensing information as if we have superior knowledge, but it is…

ReflectionsGuest UserFebruary 27, 2020Comment

Praying Out Loud

I went to the Women’s March again this year. I don’t know whether marches make change in the world, but I know they help sustain and encourage me. I come out of my house, where…

ReflectionsGuest UserJanuary 26, 2020 Comments

O Gracious Light

This December I was given a great gift. It was a spiritual practice offered by a trusted writer of the Contemplative Life, Peter Traben Haas. In his book…

ReflectionsGuest UserDecember 26, 2019 Comments

Life Support

Nearly 40 years ago, a group of people from different spiritual traditions came together to find a way to support people in listening deeply to their own experience of God.

ReflectionsGuest UserNovember 25, 2019 Comment