Why Spiritual Direction?

• To slow down and collect your thoughts. Life is hectic and slowing down can help you identify what you really want and where God is leading you.
• To help you make important decisions. The silence and discussion help clarify your desires and needs.
• To process grief, disappointment and anger towards God. Life is hard and it’s easty to get stuck in the hurt. Spiritual direction provides an opportunity to process those feelings.
• Many people come to spiritual direction in mid-life when their life hasn’t turned out as they had hoped. It’s a safe space to process those feelings and the opportunity to be real with God about your disappointment can bring healing.
• To be intentional about growing in your relationship with God.

**Important Note: Spiritual direction is not therapy/counseling; though it does resemble counseling. But the similarities should stop there…if the spiritual director is doing it right. 😉 Counseling is problem and/or (human) relationship focused and a good therapist provides advice and tools centered around those issues. Spiritual direction is focused on your relationship with God. And a good spiritual director limits their advice to suggested spiritual practices (only if you want them) and strives to simply ask questions that help you build trust in your relationship with God. In my opinion, a Follower of Christ can benefit tremendously from counseling AND spiritual direction and I recommend both for an emotionally healthy foundation for life.