Spiritual Guidance

Spiritual Guidance (or Spiritual Direction as it is sometimes) is a hallowed way of accompanying you on your spiritual journey. Together, you and your guide listen deeply to the mystery and moving of Spirit in your life in order to discern the sacred thread that leads you into a deeper relationship with the spiritual world. Individual monthly meetings in Ellsworth or Seal Cove are arranged with either Kathryn or Joan. Group spiritual guidance can also be arranged.

At the heart of the spiritual direction relationship is a befriending in silence, and a deep trusting that there is, in fact, a spiritual dimension to one's life, and that one can come to know and live out of that dimension.

The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a person's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which one presents to the world, and to bring out one's inner spiritual freedom, one's inmost truth, which is what [Christians] call the likeness of Christ in one's soul. --Thomas Merton

There are few road maps for spiritual direction. Each relationship is unique. Over the course of time, the two seek to discern what is emerging in the person's life — where there are blocks or fears that are preventing a deeper communion with God and where there is movement and change and growth.