Spiritual Direction expands the nature of this call, helps you identify its nuances, and encourages you in responding.
Where is God inviting you at this point in your life?
What is Spiritual Direction?
Grasping for God may be as incomprehensible as attempting to capture wind in a bottle.
Spiritual direction seeks to present a forum, a venue, by which the understanding of God is enhanced.
Like art, the spiritual director is challenged to think beyond limits, expand into new territories, and challenge preconceived notions.
Like science, spiritual direction uses proven techniques, yet has the freedom to experiment beyond the previously traveled roads.
The science of the endeavor provides the guardrails, and the art allows for the free-flow dynamism of the Holy Spirit.
Spiritual Direction is…
A state of holy listening. It is a place of safety and shelter where another can find true rest. - Margaret Guenther
A tool to help the believer pay attention to God’s personal communications, respond to them, and grow in intimacy with God. - William Barry
The quest for God, with the accompaniment of a fellow sojourner, for communion with God, leading to contemplation of God. - Tyler Dersom
A trusted, confidential relationship between a director and directee where I bear my soul. It is a space where I can be fully myself, without any masks on. - Anonymous
How does one finite human help another finite human encounter an infinite God?
How can one initiate, foster and nurture a personal relationship with God?
Spiritual direction assumes that this individual journey has already occurred, but incorporates a fellow sojourner to enhance the potentials inherent in divine connection.
Spiritual Direction finds its origins in the ministry of Jesus Christ.
With the woman at the well, in John 4, Jesus listens and responds with spiritual words, pointing her to Truth and turning her into an evangelist.
With Nicodemus, in John 3, Jesus answers his questions, but points to the higher life that God desired for him.
