Spiritual Direction
Your Wisdom - Our Companionship - God’s Guidence
What is Spiritual Direction.
Spiritual direction is more about companionship than directing. It’s a safe, nonjudgmental space for self-examination in the light of one’s faith. It’s a space in which you can doubt, question, wrestle, and learn to listen for The Divine in your life, heart, and in places previously assumed to be separate from God's governance.
Those who seek spiritual direction want to grow in faith, examine spiritual experience and belief, and, ultimately, become more alive.
What does a spiritual director do?
We help people notice and cultivate ways of knowing and being known by God / The Divine / Source. We direct attention toward the holy as we see and hear it in the life of the person sitting across from us.
We offer a place set apart from the ordinary flow of life, in which you can meditate on God / The Divine / Source - without distraction or intrusion.
As a spiritual director I am host to a time of reflection, focused on your experience of the holy. I do not create the experience, nor do I have to understand it. I help you move more deeply into it, noticing what I can as we go, and trying to keep us on course toward a sense and knowing of God / The Divine / Source.
Who Am I Anyway?
Great question. I trained as a spiritual director through Stillpoint, I’m ordained as a priest in the Apostolic Sacramental Church, and I’m a spiritual seeker who continues to learn (that’s the short list).
For three years, I was discerning life as an Episcopal monk (that was a “no”); during that time I served as a jail chaplain, which I absolutely loved. I was a lay counselor at my church, participated in the four-year Education for Ministry program, and am trained as a “By Your Side end-of-life vigil companion”.
If I had to sum up my faith in a few words it would be, “We are all an aspect of The Divine in human form. We are love because we come from love. Fundamentally, our reason for being incarnated is to learn, grow, and love. In all our imperfection, we are never beyond the grace and love of God.”
