Listening Together for the Sacred
Welcome.
Perhaps you are here because something in you is asking to be heard. Perhaps you are sensing a movement in your spiritual life that you’d like to attend to with care. Perhaps you are simply curious about what it means to walk this path with a companion.
Whatever brings you here, I am glad you’ve come.
Spiritual direction, ‘holy friendship,’ can be found in every great spiritual tradition. But the purpose is not to attach us to someone wiser than ourselves—the guru, the great guide, the spiritual master, the bodhisattva, the saint. The purpose of spiritual direction is to enable us to become holy ourselves.
Joan Chittister
Spiritual direction is an ancient practice of listening together — for the still small voice, for the sound of the genuine, for the Presence that moves quietly beneath the surface of our days. As a certified Spiritual Director through the Shalem Institute, I offer this companionship to those seeking a deeper relationship with God.
I work with individuals in person in the Darien, Connecticut area, and online by Zoom. If you’d like to learn more about what spiritual direction is, a bit about me, or how to begin a conversation, I welcome you to explore.
Blessed be the longing that brought you here
John O’Donohue, from “For Longing”
And quickens your soul with wonder.
May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire
That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe.
. . .
May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency.