Finding Resilience
Letters From Our Executive Director
"We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not…
March 2, 2025
Letters From Our Executive Director
The Darkness That We Share Together
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, In the office, we bend over hundreds and hundreds of white paper sacks—scooping mugs full of dusty sand…
January 26, 2025Growing in Wondrous Ways
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Monday morning, Sr. Maria rings my home number to let me know the news. An enormous branch from…
December 17, 2024In Connection With One Another
Initiatives, Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Sr. Maria stands at my office desk and points, suddenly, past my shoulder to the open window behind…
October 24, 2024Connecting to a Deeper Source
Letters From Our Executive DirectorFor what is the mystical life but God coming to do what we cannot do? - Ruth Barrows, OCD Dear…
August 2, 2024The Divine Within Yourself and One Another
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, For our staff retreat on Monday, I hurry to the boardroom, gripping two heavy boxes of mirrors that…
June 28, 2024The Sanctuary That is Cranaleith Spiritual Center
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Elizabeth (Director of Hosted Groups) and I kneel on the rough planks of the front porch of the…
May 29, 2024Seeing Our Faces in the Light
Letters From Our Executive DirectorMay 5, 2024 Dear Friends, Photographs lie in neat piles on my desk, but I am stressed because of a…
May 6, 2024Shadow and Light
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, My husband, youngest daughter and I will be racing to upstate New York this Monday, chasing the solar…
April 5, 2024The Glimmering Light of Hope
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, The tour guide, ten college students and I walk as quickly as we can from the parked bus,…
March 1, 2024Listening for the Waters to Rush Free
Letters From Our Executive Director"May the God of hope fill you will all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you…
February 2, 2024A New Journey
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Beloved Cranaleith Community, As we stand on the threshold of a new year, all of us at Cranaleith are…
December 22, 2023Listening Deeply: A Profoundly Powerful Act
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Parked in the cell phone lot at the Philadelphia International Airport, I listen for a call. Two of…
December 1, 2023Listen for the Language of Wholeness
Letters From Our Executive DirectorAll this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving…
November 2, 2023Listen to the Space Between
Letters From Our Executive Director"Be still, and know that I am God." Psalm 46:10. Dear Friends, At Cranaleith, the crickets chirp loudly in…
September 27, 2023A Wellspring of Mercy
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Stepping out barefoot on the warm boards of our back deck, my younger daughter and I crane our…
September 18, 2023If These Walls Could Talk
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, "Negative space" is a term used in art to describe the space surrounding a subject–that essential and important…
September 18, 2023The Deep Springs Within Us
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Members of the staff have been watching closely the water of the pond, worrying about several ropey, green…
September 18, 2023Where Hope Can Be Found
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, Over the Memorial Day weekend, I trip on the broken sidewalk and fall, face-forward, on the concrete.I hear…
June 19, 2023Be Amazed, Be in Awe
Letters From Our Executive DirectorDear Friends, When I am at Cranaleith, I find my breath deepens, my mind quiets. Walking from my car to…
June 19, 2023
