Stories and Reflections
from the Stillpoint Community

As one begins the journey to becoming a spiritual director, one of the most important understandings is that agency lies with the directee, the one being companioned, not the director.

The first time we hear that something lasted forty days and forty nights in Hebrew Scripture is in the story of the flood in Genesis. In the book of Exodus, Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights, receiving God’s law for the people.

Before the COVID-19 lockdown, I had the privilege of serving a women’s jail, offering one-on- one spiritual companionship and Sunday worship. I have missed this community and look forward to returning. It is a powerful experience to set an altar in a jail…

One of the significant losses experienced during our global pandemic is that of communal singing. In feeling this loss, we recognize the gift we may have sometimes taken for granted. While many have done their best to keep us singing together…

Stillpoint is growing. And because we are growing so has our staff. We have been gifted with the presence of Chris Ng, Krystle Hart, Dana Cagle and Ravi Verma and now Colleen joins us as our new Associate Program Director.

What is pandemic life teaching me about myself, about my communities, about my world? I asked this often in the first few months of the COVID lockdown. And then I had to ask myself as months turned into a year. What is the pandemic teaching us now?

Growing up my family had the ritual, like many, of praying before we ate dinner. It was called, saying grace. Such a lovely phrase, saying grace. I didn’t experience as saying grace then but more like…

Recently, a friend told me she gets her news from the poets these days. Here’s some news that I’ve been tuned into from Wendell Berry…

“We are in trouble because we do not have a good story,” Catholic priest and evolutionary theologian Thomas Berry often said. “We are between stories. The old story is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned ‘the new story.’

I can’t say I have had much use for pearls in my life, but the creation process of a pearl is precious to me. Pearls and their beauty come into being at a great price. I believe this is why Jesus used the pearl in his wisdom teachings.