{"id":66,"date":"2024-06-21T00:48:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2024-08-03T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T00:18:07","slug":"spiritual-direction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/spiritual-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Yet we must find joy in her rages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">She comes in sun or darkness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">And total surrender is the only<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Resource that lasts in her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Whether I lose or win,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Love remains my only good<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">In her alone my fullness rests.\u2019<\/p>\n<cite>Hadewijch<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spiritual Direction is an age-old companionship practice on the often-lonely path of living a spiritual life. Spiritual Direction provides deep and non-judgemental listening with a view to encouraging exploration of your emotions, events and relationships, your life journey. A Spiritual Director is a companion on the road, who reflects your explorations and acknowledges your journey\u2019s invitations, awakening new possibilities, connections, deeper meaning and compassion. Spiritual Direction is for those who are seeking to grow and explore their inner life, discover union in the Presence and develop clarity in response to the world. Spiritual Direction can help you discern the link between contemplative living and action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some directees with a practice of contemplative prayer, a spiritual companion can awaken your attunement to Presence and help deepen your relationship with the Divine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In any case, Spiritual Direction fosters a contemplative stance in both director and directee that supports greater depth, freedom and growth in both director and directee.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018If to be free is the most important goal of all \u2026 then to help someone else to be free or become free must be the most sublime and rewarding of all human endeavours.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elie Weisel, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spiritual Direction is not psychological counselling or life coaching. It is not a place to get advice about a problem or practical skills to solve it. It\u2019s certainly not religious proselytizing or preaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about Spiritual Direction see the Australian Network for Spiritual Directors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansd.org.au\">www.ansd.org.au<\/a> or Spiritual Directors International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdicompanions.org\">www.sdicompanions.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Yet we must find joy in her rages She comes in sun or darkness And total surrender is the only Resource that lasts in her. Whether I lose or win, Love remains my only good In her alone my fullness rests.\u2019 Hadewijch Spiritual Direction is an age-old companionship practice on the often-lonely path of living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magsandtom.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}