Spiritual direction helps you explore and deepen your connection with God and centers on your ongoing spiritual journey. Through gentle listening and thoughtful questions, a spiritual director helps you recognize where God is already moving in your life, develop meaningful prayer practices, and discern God’s guidance in decisions. This ancient Christian practice creates a safe space to explore your faith, work through spiritual questions, and look for the fingerprints of God in your life.

Here are a few other definitions of spiritual direction:

“The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a person’s life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which one presents to the world, and to bring out one’s inner spiritual freedom, one’s inmost truth, which is what [Christians] call the likeness of Christ in one’s soul.  This is an entirely supernatural (spiritual) thing, for the work of rescuing the inner person from automatism belongs first of all to the Holy Spirit.”
–Thomas Merton

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“Spiritual direction is help given by one Christian to another which enables that person to pay attention to God’s personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship.”
–William A. Barry

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“Spiritual direction is essentially companioning someone in his or her spiritual life. Other ways of describing spiritual direction include holy listening, spiritual friendship, sacred journeying.”
–Janna Larson

While many people from the Christian tradition seek spiritual direction, it is not limited only to Christians. Many people who do not label themselves by a religious label seek to understand the Mystery behind their existence. Many spiritual directors, myself included, are comfortable sitting with and listening to others share from their different backgrounds, beliefs, race, sexual orientations, and identities. A director’s role is to hold space for and allow God to do what God wants to do.

Contact me to schedule a meeting for more information.

I count it an honor and a sacred calling to walk alongside you in your journey.