It is Holy Cross Day, 2021. Companions celebrate this occasion at Adelynrood, our beloved home base and retreat center, with a procession to what we call the “Great Cross.” It stands on a granite outcropping, reminding us who we are

Companion Conference always manages to tell us what we need to hear.

One of the offerings of the 2021 Companion Conference was a poetry workshop on writing a poem in the tradition of a midrash. In Jewish tradition, a midrash is discerning new meaning in the text of the Torah. For us today,

Each year, Companions gather in a memorial service to remember our sisters who have died in the past year. We celebrate lives well lived and mark a Companion’s move to what we lovingly call the Paradise Chapter.

Sometimes the “changes and chances of this life,” instead of wearing us down, present us with something life-giving instead. Which is how I found myself drawn to spiritual direction.