SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual Direction is a spiritual discipline in which a directee meets with a director regularly to talk about the movement of God in their life.
Spiritual Direction focuses on religious experience. It is concerned with a person’s actual experience of a relationship with God.
Spiritual Direction is about a relationship. The religious experience is not isolated, nor does it consist of extraordinary events. It is what happens in an ongoing relationship between the person and God. Most often, this is a relationship that is experienced in prayer.
Spiritual Direction is a relationship that is going somewhere. God is leading the person to deeper faith and more generous service. The spiritual director asks not just “What is happening?” but “What is moving forward?” The real spiritual director is God. God touches the human heart directly. A director can notice and recommend practices that may benefit the directee, but this is not about advice giving or supervision.
