CFDM Pacific Northwest. Finding a Spiritual Director

Finding a Spiritual Director

Greater Seattle area list of Spiritual Directors

Spiritual direction is a ministry of companioning those who want to go deeper in their relationship with God through Christ. It is a resource for paying attention to the movement of God in every area of one’s life.

In spiritual direction two people have an on-going relationship in which one person (the directee), desires to be more attentive to her or his spiritual life. The directee meets with another person (the director or guide) on a regular basis (approximately once a month) specifically to become more attuned to God’s presence. The director listens and asks questions to assist the directee in his or her process of reflection and spiritual growth.

Eugene Peterson, a Presbyterian pastor, author and professor of Christian spirituality, describes it this way,

“It is teaching people to pray, to discern the presence of grace in events and feelings, affirming the presence of God at the heart of life, sharing a search for light through a dark passage, guiding the formation of a self-understanding that is biblically spiritual instead of merely psychological or sociological. It is ‘space to explore the everyday ordinariness for the presence of God and workings of grace’, precisely at those times when ‘nothing seems to be happening.’”