Spiritual Direction

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"To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease." Henry Nouwen

     Spiritual direction is a discipline that helps us grow in our relationship with God through prayer. 

     Spiritual direction helps us become aware of the ways in which we cooperate with, ignore, or in some cases actively hinder the Holy Spirit’s work within us. It invites us to grow, calls us to conversion, and facilitates a deeper relationship with God and others.     

     A spiritual director listens and gives feedback about what he or she is hearing and sensing about the movement of the Holy Spirit in the directee’s life. The feedback is to help the directee become more open to the prompting of the Holy Spirit in the everyday events of their life. This feedback is for the directee’s consideration only; directors do not tell directees what to do. Through this process, the directee usually enters or deepens a life of prayer, seeking God’s will in their life.

     This is a Trinitarian Relationship. The director, the directee and God come together. The director companions, or walks with, a directee and together we draw closer to God.