Category: Spiritual Direction
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Article: June 2025
Building Authentic Relationships… This article was written for the White Wing Messenger, a magazine that’s been around in our Pentecostal circle since before I was born. I wrote my first article, “Prayer Changes Me,” for this magazine over 15 years ago. I had hoped to submit more writings, but life unfolded rather quickly. Needless to…
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New Appointments
I am currently taking new appointments for Spiritual Direction and Enneagram work. If you are interested or know someone who could benefit from spiritual care, please connect with me here. We can set up a time to meet to discuss what spiritual care is about and make a plan that works best for you. Click…
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What is Spiritual Direction?
Great question! It can be defined in many different ways. Today, I would say it is practicing the presence of God. In spiritual direction, one looks to discern where God is at work in one’s own life. One may seek to know how God may be moving them forward or backward in the present moment. …
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Curious but Unfamiliar to Spiritual Direction?
When I speak to others of Spiritual Direction, I often get a curious look and a slight sense of resistance. This is to be expected. I remember wondering what spiritual direction was and how it could be helpful. I honestly didn’t understand what was behind such a word that seemed to imply that someone else…
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Gift Certificates
Once again, I am offering gift certificates as a way of introducing others to the practice of Spiritual Direction. For those who aren’t familiar, you can find more information here. If you want to skip over to learn more about giving “the gift of spiritual care,” click here.
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Gift Certificates For Christmas ❤️
…GIVE A GIFT OF SPIRITUAL CARE Christmas is known as a season of giving. This is a time when people intentionally look around to see where they can give something that will benefit another. I want to offer something new this year, the gift of spiritual care. We all long for something more, something life-giving,…
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Hesitancy in talking about your spiritual life?
Do you struggle in having conversations around your spiritual life? Perhaps some days, feel more resistant than others when it comes to putting language to what is happening in you. This could be something surfacing in your prayer life, your relationships, your work environment. Perhaps something from childhood keeps resurfacing. Any of these could be…
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Interested in Spiritual Direction Training?
CenterQuest School of Spiritual Direction is now taking ‘early bird’ applications for Cohort 6 (July 2024- October 2025) click HERE for more details. FOR MORE INFO: Contact CenterQuest through the toll-free number: 1-833-QUEST-05 or email: info@cqcenterquest.org or site: www.CQCenterQuest.org
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What is Spiritual Direction?
Walter Burghardt describes contemplation as taking a “long, loving look at the real”. Spiritual Direction is the ancient spiritual practice of “listening to God together” while taking a “long, loving look at the real”. It is a place where one learns how to notice and pay attention to God in their own life as they…
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Contemplation
The contemplative life is about returning home, again and again and again. Martin Laird, in his book Into The Silent Land, mentions this home as the “Silent Land”. This Silent Land can be found. It is within me, yet it won’t be found unless I am willing to enter by way of contemplative prayer, a…
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Spiritual Direction
If you or someone you know is interested in Spiritual Direction, I am taking new appointments. Spiritual Direction is the art of listening to God together. I am not an expert on your life. God is. And together we listen and look for where God is already at work.
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Forming a Lectio Group
Hello friends! I am forming a Lectio Divina Group. Lectio what? Glad you asked. A Lectio Divina Group is a spiritual formation group that opens the door to contemplative listening to God, self, and others. In this group a Scripture passage is read several times with pauses and questions to ponder in between. This is…
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Launching My Spiritual Direction Practice
Today is the day. I’ve been working on my blog that I’ve had for many years. I decided to turn it into a launch pad for my Spiritual Direction Practice. I am super excited and honored to have the privilege of companioning people on their spiritual journey. May the mystery of God be embraced by…
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what a trip…
So here I am, 7 weeks after training to be a Spiritual Director and I actually get to sit with people in the sacred space of Holy Listening. What an incredible gift! I listen different. I see different. I am different. The world seems different. Less scary. More whole. I’m less judgemental. More compassionate. Less…
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