About Pathways Spiritual Direction
What is Spiritual Direction?
Learn more about Spiritual Direction
Where is God working in your life?
A Spiritual Director is a trained listener, someone who cares about hearing your story. Directors look for the work of the Holy Spirit in your life, and help you respond to God's personal invitations to a deeper relationship. In this encounter, the Holy Spirit is the true director and we listen together.
Spiritual direction is not advice or solutions but an on-going process of discovery and opening, of becoming and being. Spiritual Direction is for people who are spiritually thoughtful about their lives and curiously reflective about the ways they order and orient their lives as they live out their relationship with God. The pace is slow and reflective as we join together in the mystery.
Explore Your Questions
A spiritual relationship with God can be full of uncertainties, practical concerns and doubts. Spiritual Direction addresses questions that are essential to your spiritual life such as:
- How can I experience God more deeply in my day-to-day life?
- How can I discern God's will in my circumstances?
- Why does God seem distant when I pray?
- Nothing that used to work for me is working anymore. How can I get back to a vibrant life with Jesus?
- A difficult choice is before me and I feel stuck; help.
History of Spiritual Direction
In the first centuries of the Church, those gifted in discernment and listening to the Holy Spirit and in guiding others were called "spiritual directors". Although it has been a part of the global Church since it's inception, it was often reserved for persons in specified ministries. Those who were spiritually hungry could also seek spiritual guides. The Catholic Church is most familiar with the practice but since the 1970's, the Protestant Church has grown in understanding, training and practice of Spiritual Direction as well.
What does Spiritual Direction Do?
Over time, the ministry of spiritual direction can help believers grow in the following ways:
- deepening awareness of God's deep love for them, especially when they feel unlovable.
- sensitivity to their own heart's resistance to the Lord's work
- love for God, His people and His work in the world
How Spiritual Direction Works
Spiritual Direction fits easily into your life and enriches your daily relationship with God. Sessions are:
- one hour in length, scheduled once a month
- conducted in person, or virtually
- $65 per session
- one-on-one, always confidential
- usually begins with a Scripture reading or reflection to turn the focus to God
- quiet filled spaces where director and directee can listen to the LORD.
- conversations where the directee chooses the topic of discussion or discernment they would like to explore together
About Tiffany
I first heard of Spiritual Direction in 2007 from my mentor who was in the process of pursuing a degree in counseling at Seattle School of Theology. Since that time, God has taken me on a scenic journey of discovery as I picked up little pieces and experiences of Spiritual Direction along the way. He has woven in me a deep sense of purpose, love for Him and for people.
I’ve served in leadership positions with Campus Crusade for Christ, as a staff member at a large church and as a volunteer staff at a church plant for the past 25 years. Spiritual formation has been a common chord God has woven in my soul from the beginning of my journey with Jesus.
Today, I see a deep need for a safe, listening space for followers of Christ regardless of their faith background. Our souls are deeply longing for spaces to process how God moves within our spirit. We are hungry and longing for people who are safe to share together our questions, our fears, our longings, our grief and sorrow over the state of the hard places in life. There is joy and gratefulness that overflows even out of those dark nights in our path and we need companions to accompany us, to witness and validate both the grief and the joy. It makes the sorrow bearable and the joy more complete!
I do not subscribe to a rigid and strict faith, but rather one that encompasses gentleness, peace, generosity and love. I was not raised in the church but came to Christ as a young adult. As I have walked with Jesus, I have found restoration, redemption and healing in the light of his love and it is my heart's desire for all people to notice God's love and voice in their own lives too. All people need someone who can see the good parts of us and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the sad and the joy-filled and not walk away.
I have been married for 20+ years and together we have three children. My story has messiness and darkness, but I believe that each day I live is an opportunity to grow in love for the sake of the Kingdom of God.
I live in St. Charles, MO and I love to be in nature, to garden and create beauty with plants, to move my body, laugh loud, to learn and to read. I especially love to talk about deep things of God.
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