What is Spiritual
Guidance?
The contemporary spiritual search may be a search for meaning of
one's life or various transitions, a journey inward, a re-evaluation, or a
search for self-discovery and awareness leading to enlightenment and change.
Definition and Purpose
Spiritual guidance is about facilitating our relationship to this mystery we
call God/dess. It is a ministry that helps us come to an every deeper
realization of this Mystery in relation to the unique lives given us.
Spiritual guidance is a relationship that aims at helping us center in our lives
in the Divine Mystery. We start with whatever has been our experience of the
holy, the sacred, the divine, the mysterious. Guidance is a shared process of
sensitizing us further to the presence and action in our lives in order to more
fully empower us in living more fully within this Mystery. A frequent aim is to
integrate prayer and life, reflection and action, and faith and justice with
compassion. When we share the meaning of our lives and what values guide us with
others we become more aware of ourselves, the leadings of the Spirit, and more
free and courageous to fully commit ourselves to loving decisions and actions.