“Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life”. Richard J. Foster
- A companion will listen attentively and reflect back to you what you are experiencing and discovering.
- Discussions will take place in full reverence and respect for the spiritual movement in your life.
- A wise spiritual director recognizes that God speaks to people in many different ways. The spiritual companion listens to you describe your experience as it makes sense to you, in words and phrases that are meaningful to you. Although he or she may help you connect your experience with spiritual concepts such as grace or the movement of the Holy Spirit, there’s no attempt to rewrite your experience to be anything other than what it is.
- A person with whom you are safe to talk about your interior life in all its complexity and unfolding beauty.
The spiritual companion/coach offers thoughtful questions, observations, and room for reflection and prayer, all for the sake of the person. This “sacred space” helps the person grow communion with God by noticing their lives, naming how God is present and active in love, and choosing how to respond to God’s loving overtures.
A Spiritual Companion will help you notice where God is at work in your life, to help you discern what He is up to and where He may be inviting you forward in relationship and action. He will help people mature in their faith and deepen their relationship with God so
The Christian life often entails times of spiritual uncertainty—situations in which we are unsure of God’s will, confused about what God is doing in our circumstances, or generally dry in our relationship with God.