Spiritual Direction
Spiritual Direction is accompanying another person on their spiritual journey, enabling them to listen to the movement of God's Spirit in their lives and to respond with generosity.
A Definition:
...help given from one Christian to another which enables that person to pay attention to God's personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship
(William Barry SJ and William Connolly., 1984. The Practice of Spiritual Direction.)
We see that it is...
- 2 adults listening together in God ... to discern the movements of the Spirit in the life of one of them
- An art form - a ministry
- A ministry to which God is calling us through the request of others
Which has...
- A history which goes back to the beginnings of all major faiths