• Judy Walsh-Mellett

    • Judy Walsh-Mellett is a graduate of Shalem’s Transforming Community: Leading Contemplative Prayer Groups & Retreats.   Since 2023 she has been part of the staff of this program offering a seminar on Sound & Silence as well as serving as a Peer Group leader.  Judy has a certificate from  the RUAH School of Spiritual Guidance at Richmond Hill and accompanies others with spiritual guidance.  She has a long association with Dayspring Silent Retreat Center as a retreat leader and more recently offers her home and garden as Still Place:  An Urban Retreat.   Judy is the mother of three adult children and a delighted grandmother.

      She tends an organic vegetable and flower garden around her home and enjoys making meals from the homegrown produce.

Serving Tea

There is something magical about watching my sister Marsha serve tea. Few notice as she performs this kindness. She is quiet and unassuming as she works. Her attention is steadily focused on two things: carefully depressing the button on the cooler and watching as the tea fills the cup and then meeting the eye of […]

August 08, 2020 by Judy Walsh-Mellett 2 Comments

A Space for Silence & Prayer

Article by Judy Walsh-Mellett – September 2019 eNews As a child walking in the woods, I was not compelled to ponderous thinking or righting the world’s wrongs. I simply walked and paused breathless if a deer or a rabbit passed by. Or gazed in awe if I chanced to see a Lady Slipper’s rare glory, […]

September 09, 2019 by Judy Walsh-Mellett 1 Comment