Definitions

  •  Spiritual Direction
    “Our work calls people to their own holiness”.  (Spiritual Directors InternationaI statement)

           I do Spiritual Guidance in following contexts and cultures:

Young Adults/Youth

Couples/families

Divorced/Widowed

Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans/Queer/Questioning

Retiring from work/career

Elderly/Mature Adults

Grieving/Dying/Sick

  • Spiritual Guide

    A spiritual guide is not a judge.  A spiritual guide is a companion, a man or woman who sees our potential, and holds a gaze of shelter and belonging.  At times it a  fierce gaze, in other moments, we see tenderness, compassion, humility.  Our story is valuable, and speaking your truth gives voice to angst and ability.  Please risk trusting your spiritual director, trust your own gut and intuition, and remember, we only move as swiftly as the slowest part of ourselves.   Thus whether it takes months or years to fully share and integrate our story, life invitations and experience, all is well in the fullness of time.  Transparency, risk and seeking to create your authenticity.    –Spiritual Directors International

  • Ministry is
    a quality of relationship between and among
    human beings
    that beckons forth hidden possibilities;
    inviting people into deeper, more constant
    more reverent relationship with the world
    and with one another;
    carrying forward a long heritage of hope and
    liberation that has dignified and informed
    the human venture over many centuries;
    being present with, to, and for others
    in their terrors and torments
    in their grief, misery and pain;
    knowing that those feelings
    are our feelings, too;
    celebrating the triumphs of the human spirit,
    the miracles of birth and life,
    the wonders of devotion and sacrifice;
    witnessing to life-enhancing values;
    speaking truth to power; 
    speaking for human dignity and equity,
    for compassion and aspiration;
    believing in life in the presence of death;
    struggling for human responsibility
    against principalities and structures
    that ignore humaneness and become instruments of death.It is all these and much, much more than all of them,
    present in
    the wordless,
    the unspoken,
    the ineffable.It is speaking and living the highest we know
    and living with the knowledge that it is
    never as deep, or as wide or a high as we wish.

    Whenever there is a meeting that summons us to our better selves, wherever our lostness is found,
    our fragments are united,
    our wounds begin healing,
    our spines stiffen and
    our muscles grow strong for the task,
    there is ministry.
                 – Rev. Gordon McKeeman, Unitarian Unversalist Minister