All through my classes in The Art of Spiritual Direction, I heard it said that we seek the One who is seeking us. To seek means to attempt to find. God does not need to find us; we are woven in God’s very being. The Weaver is not seeking; the Weaver is always seeing. This
In the beginning, the Weaver was. The Weaver set the loom and took a thread that was a thread of Its own body and began to weave. The weaving would be of a beautiful garden that told its own story, the story of the Weaver. The garden would be filled with all that could feel
My Path to Spiritual Direction I came out of the church office one day, and I saw my friend, the deacon, painting the big door of one of the church’s storage garages. “I can get into some trouble there,” I thought, and I went to see what mischief I could make. I’m very fond of
A common symbol of the spiritual direction session is three chairs. A chair for the directee, a chair for the director, and a chair for God, our real director. Another symbol of the spiritual direction session is a lit candle. The woman or man you’ve come to, the director whom you thought you’d like to