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Spiritual Direction helps you take time to recognize the presence of the Holy in your everyday life. These graced moments can transform you, body, soul, mind, and spirit. By reflecting on them again and again you realize the presence of God in your daily life and receive guidance to become wholly yourself, truly alive. The more you “know” the less you understand, but you discover over and over how the journey is full of challenges, wonderful surprises, and many companions.
What is it?
The focus of Spiritual Direction is a person’s experiences of the Holy in their life and prayer. A director helps you to become aware of Spirit’s movements in your life and can encourage you to respond in ways that are uniquely your own.
Problems arise in each of our lives, which may affect our relationship with one another or with the Holy One. Problem-solving, however, is not the focus of Spiritual Direction, as in counseling. Rather your attention is directed to the Divine Healer.
Regular meetings with a spiritual director help to cultivate spiritual awareness, to notice the sacred in yourself, in others, in everyday events, in creation, in all of life! This growing awareness gives life new wonder and meaning.
Who seeks it?
What happens
A director may also suggest resources and rituals for you, sometimes scripture-based. Spiritual direction is a sacred time in which you talk about your relationship with the Divine, self, and others. Naturally, spiritual direction includes mutual sharing and problem solving but a director gently encourages you to look at how you experience God in the challenges you face. Most simply, it is about one person directing another to focus on Spirit in their lives.
Begin choosing a director by contacting someone at Spiritual Directors in Manitoba on this page. | What is it?
Who seeks it?
People from all walks of life, from all faith traditions.
What Happens?You can expect a director to listen attentively, with reverence and to ask reflective questions that may assist you in your spiritual journey. The focus is on you, rather than a mutual discussion of life issues which is more a friendship or mentoring. |