Recently Marcella Kraybill-Greggo encouraged me to share my journey with the frame drum and how it became a part of my Wisdom practice. The first seeds of exploring what the frame drum would mean for my Wisdom practice came when…
Wisdom Friends, We are so grateful that you could join us today (on 12/21) for our Wisdom Solstice Pause sponsored by Wisdom Waypoints. For those who may not have been able to join us live, and/or for those who may…
This Advent Spirituality & Practice has been re-running a course on the Desert Fathers and Mothers that I first created for them in 2015. It’s called “A Simple Immediacy,” and as the emails glide into my box each day, the…
Jennifer Hughes At our meeting in Rockland in early November of 2023, the Wisdom Waypoints Board put finishing touches on a Communications Director job description, with the intention of hiring someone to begin in early 2024. Through the year it…
We begin again, a Wisdom book practice circle. The Wisdom Way of Knowing – Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart by Cynthia Bourgeault, is the very stuff of what it means to be human, in this time in…
Watch Cynthia’s 2024 Greeting and Thank You “We are all sitting in gratitude for the new openings that your generosity and trust in us has made possible.” — Cynthia Bourgeault A Note from the Wisdom Waypoints Board As we begin…
Our Wisdom Waypoints Wisdom study of The Wisdom Way of Knowing by Cynthia Bourgeault is off and running! If you’re not participating in the online groups we’d still love to have you join the study in imaginal space, connecting from wherever you are…
See below this reflection for the Spanish translation. Christ the Redeemer; Rio de Janeiro In our own engagement with Wisdom, we continue to return again and again to this book and to this particular chapter, “Chapter…
These two chapters, written more than two decades ago, are more relevant and pertinent than ever. And it’s no coincidence that they are preceded by an explanation of the three centers of knowing. It seems to me that the more…
Bill Espinosa, an organizer of and participant in the February 2024 Spanish Wisdom School, has generously offered his first hand perspective of the Wisdom School experience at a farm just outside of Bogota, Colombia. The Fires As we drove in…
Reflections on Cynthia Bourgeault’s Talk at the Spanish Wisdom School As a new member to the Wisdom Waypoints ecosystem, I was grateful and excited to be invited to listen to Cynthia Bourgeault’s talk at the Spanish Wisdom School held outside…
Mary Magdalene is a living teacher, available to us now, showing us how to stand in the midst of our embodied lives and the cosmos. We can learn to occupy her inner posture in our bodies (movement center), emotional landscape…
As we enter into Holy week, I offer a personal account of a teaching by Cynthia and a sea eagle on remorse of being and sacred wounds. Remorse. It’s an impactful word. For you too? Perhaps it drags up…
Chapter VI describes the necessary soul gesture of surrender, which requires the willing deconstruction of our small self, or the passage of the acorn self into the oak tree (p. 64), through the balanced work of our three centers, a…
Each morning we wake to find ourselves on a river upon which we have never been, we proceed in uncharted waters, and we do not know where we are headed. As Wisdom students we’ve learned that it is not so…
Finally, in Chapter VIII Cynthia reminds us of the tools we have to awaken our hearts, the task to which we were born: “…only with awakened hearts are we actually able to fulfill our purpose within the cosmos and take…
This blog offers a brief overview of the sacred practice of chanting the psalms and reflects on its place in one’s daily Wisdom toolbox. Our gratitude to chant leaders Shirley Willihnganz and Adele Ver Steeg for writing this piece. We…
Suspended animation…. those timeless few seconds between the instant you know the crash is inevitable and the moment of actual impact. A single blank freeze frame that takes in the whole thing in a surreal, catatonic déjà vu. That’s what…
“Operation Coadjutor”: What the Episcopal Church may have to have to teach the Democratic National Party In the Episcopal Church, which I have had the honor of calling my spiritual home for five decades now, a bishop nearing retirement can…
As the humiliating debate around whether Joe Biden has “aged out” of the presidency continues to play front and center on the American political scene, it becomes more and more clear that America is basically repelled by the aging process…
Contributed by Mahan Siler, a 90 year old Wisdom student and Elder. What I learned with Bill Finlator. Bill, perhaps known by the elderly among us, was in that circle of prophetic Baptist voices including Carlyle Marney, Will Campbell, Pitts…
In a recent Facebook exchange with Matthew Wright, I hopped on Matthew’s bandwagon, agreeing that a Kamala Harris/Andy Beshear ticket was probably the Democrats’ strongest option and commenting that it might indeed carry powerful third force. Marty Schmidt queried me…
