True listening can be scary: We might hear things we don’t want to hear. We might feel like our silence implies we are agreeing with things we strongly oppose. We might even find that the other human being we thought was the devil is actually human…and maybe even likable.
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Why I Need Spiritual Direction and You Might, Too
I got a new spiritual director this week. Life circumstances for both of us had, a couple of years ago, conspired such that my original director and I had to amicably end our “direction relationship.” The next director and I already had a pre-existing friendship which, while lifegiving in many other important ways, did kindContinue reading “Why I Need Spiritual Direction and You Might, Too”