RESOURCES

Spiritual Direction 

Spiritual Direction is an invitation to take one hour a month to focus on inner life. This is a time to slow down, breathe deeply and quiet the noise of the world. It is a time to connect with who you are created to be, and to live more truly from that identity. Spiritual Direction helps you tune into the still, small voice of God. 

The Spiritual Director is a companion who listens, notices and holds space for how God is working in your life and how you are relating and responding to the Divine. Both individuals look to the Holy Spirit, who is the true director. Spiritual Direction is for anyone who desires a more intentional spiritual journey. 

Click on the button below to learn more about our Spiritual Directors, who are available for individual sessions.

Other Sources of Support & Inspiration

“When you are tending your own soul, other souls are being tended too.”  ~Betty Johnson

The spiritual life is one of contemplation and then moving into action from that space. May these resources provide you nourishment, energy, challenge, discomfort and light along your own path. 

  • The Gift of Wonder by Christine Aroney-Sine

    The Artist Way by Julia Cameron

    Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope by Joan D. Chittister

    The Gift of the Red Bird by Paula D’Arcy

    The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd

    The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo

    To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’Donohue

    Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

    Praying the Elements by Christine Valters Paintner

    My Grandfather’s Blessings by Rachel Naomi Remen

    The Sanctuary of Women by Jan Richardson

    When Mary Becomes Cosmic by David Richo

    Just This by Richard Rohr

    The Flowing Grace of Now by Macrina Wiederkehr

    Still Possible by David Whyte

  • The Music of Strangers

    Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble

    Finding Joe

    My Octopus Teacher

    The Way

    Mr. Rogers and Me

  • The Way In

    Whoever you are: some evening take a step
    out of your house, which you know so well.
    Enormous space is near, your house lies where it begins,
    whoever you are.
    Your eyes find it hard to tear themselves
    from the sloping threshold, but with your eyes
    slowly, slowly, lift one black tree
    up, so it stands against the sky: skinny, alone.
    With that you have made the world. The world is immense
    and like a word that is still growing in the silence.
    In the same moment that your will grasps it,
    your eyes, feeling its subtlety, will leave it. . . .

    ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by Robert Bly, p. 71

    The Guest House

    This being human is a guest house.
    Every morning a new arrival.
    A joy, a depression, a meanness,
    some momentary awareness comes
    as an unexpected visitor.
    Welcome and entertain them all!
    Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
    who violently sweep your house
    empty of its furniture,
    still, treat each guest honorably.
    He may be clearing you out
    for some new delight.
    The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
    meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
    Be grateful for whatever comes.
    because each has been sent
    as a guide from beyond.

    ~ © 1997 by Coleman Barks. Posted with permission. All rights reserved. From The Illuminated Rumi

    Untitled

    Everything belongs
    The joys
    The sorrows
    The small moments that bring your heart joy
    The painful experiences that show you a new way
    Honor your emotions and feelings
    And then…let them go
    Do not attach…
    You are more than your feelings and emotions
    You were created from Love
    You are Love.

    ~ Laura Vaughan

    The Clearing

    Do not try to save

    the whole world

    or do anything grandiose.

    Instead, create

    a clearing

    in the dense forest

    of your life

    and wait there

    patiently,

    until the song that is your life

    falls into your own cupped hands

    and you recognize and greet it.

    Only then will you know

    how to give yourself

    to this world

    so worthy of rescue.

    ~Martha Postelwaite

  • “ The true work of our lives is love.”
    ~ Paula D'Arcy

    “Let God be the God of your life; let go of all the things you think you need to be or of the things you think you need to do. Stop trying to control your life and your destiny and allow yourself to be loved by God who accepts you as you are, in your truest self, and desires you as you are, with all your fragile limits. This God of compassionate love is closer to you than you are to yourself. God knows your pain and your sufferings: God is the compassionate One.”
    ~ from Compassion: Living in the Spirit of St. Francis by Ilia Delio, OSF

    "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
    ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

    "If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love."
    ~ James Finley

    "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
    ~ Victor Frankl

    "We belong to something so much greater than our individual lives."
    ~ Paula D'Arcy

    "Let go of all that seems to suggest getting somewhere, being someone, having a name and a voice, following a policy and directing people in my ways. What matters is to love."
    ~ Thomas Merton

    "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
    ~ Rumi

    "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well...For there is a force of love moving through the universe that holds us fast and will never let us go."
    ~ Julian of Norwich