Standing Still: Hearing the Call to a Spirit-centered Life

by Jordan, Meredith

• ISBN13: 9780974953526
• ISBN10: 0974953520
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Rogers McKay Pub

Summary

Reviews of Embracing the Mystery: If you seek dialogue with someone who is genuinely wise and trustworthy about matters of spirit, you will rejoice, weep, and even laugh out loud while reading Meredith Jordan's fine new book. Written in a wonderfully intelligent and engaging style, this collection of reflections on "living a spirited life" gently calls readers into a process of deepening conversation about spirituality, personal integrity and hope for transformation. After this probing, pondering and prayerful process, readers comes away with a more heart-felt "yes!" to life and renewed energy to make a difference in and for a world that's groaning for renewal.Rev. Dr. Marvin Ellison Bass Professor of Religious Ethics Bangor Theological Seminary

Author Biography

Meredith Jordan, RN, MA, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and the co-founder of Rogers McKay, a non-profit, interfaith, spiritual education organization in southern coastal Maine. An interfaith spiritual director and member of Spiritual Directors International, she is a speaker and retreat leader throughout the country. She lives part of each year on the coasts of Maine and Florida.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(11)
Be here now	22	(13)
Turtle nature	35	(10)
Find your pod	45	(12)
Accoutrements and impedimenta	57	(7)
To everything, a season	64	(9)
The woman who keeps bees	73	(9)
Carry the truth stick with grace	82	(9)
Glimpse the magic	91	(6)
Beyond words	97	(10)
Become unbreakable	107	(10)
Bearing us up	117	(7)
Standing still	124	(8)
Holy ground	132	(5)
Her holy face	137	(3)
Little altars everywhere	140	(5)
Gaining and losing God	145	(7)
Ripe peaches	152	(5)
If God is still speaking	157	(9)
Listen devoutly	166	(8)
Go on singing	174	(10)
Let us work together	184	(7)
Passing through	191	(8)
Law of the sea	199	(10)
Learn another language	209	(9)
Illumined heart	218	(9)
Forgive absolutely everything	227	(10)
Kindness of strangers	237	(9)
Summon the angels	246	(9)
Good enough	255	(5)
Leap of faith	260	(12)
Take your place	272	(12)
The heroic journey	284	(5)
Medicine bag lessons	289	(11)
Trickster	300	(11)
Reach for joy	311	(4)
Buddha's last instructions	315	(9)
That which holds all	324