From our May 2009 Newsletter
A Story from the Well
Ministry happens everywhere, you just have to be aware that the opportunities are right under your nose. In the context of 2 Cor. 5:11-21, God has reconciled the world (all people) to Himself through Christ. We can’t escape this amazing truth. So, what does that mean for the lost and the forgotten? It means that this message of hope is still for them. Verse 16 says, “So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.” We have a deep foundation from where to share this truth with the world and all the reconcilable people Jesus died for. Who is this message for? This week, I learned from people I’ve met recently that this message is for a mother of three kids who lost their father in a car accident. It’s for the two little 7 year old girls of that family that are starving themselves so that they can die and go be with their daddy. It’s for a 7 year old boy of another family that doesn’t know the father he’s had growing up isn’t his real father. It’s for that mother who has to decide when to tell him. It’s for the social worker and the victims of abuse that work together for answers day in and day out. Dear friends, the reconciling message we hold in our hearts is for the normal everyday conversations we have, even from those who cry out for help in the faintest whispers. Listen for the whispers.
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Helping people find significance and confidence in their lives.
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Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." - John 4:13-14
What is Spiritual Direction?
We define Christian spiritual direction as help given by one Christian to another which enables that person to pay attention to God’s personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship. (William A. Barry, SJ and William J. Connolly, SJ, Center for Religious Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
Is it the same as counseling?
Although very similar, spiritual direction provides a place to deal with issues that remain hidden and dark within a person’s soul, many times issues that have been suppressed for so long that the person doesn’t fully realize how much it is affecting them. Counseling’s primary focus is on a plan of action to deal with the effects of woundedness within a person’s life. We will sometimes refer to a counselor when a more clinical, psychological approach would be more beneficial. Spiritual direction’s primary focus is to teach people how to let God accompany them through all of their life, including their past pain. By companioning people in their pain, they will gain confidence from His presence and power.
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