Pegge Bernecker
 
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“Spiritual direction is the art of soul friending with a person or group while engaged in holy listening and response to the movements of the Holy One that some name God.”
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About Spiritual Direction

Spiritual direction is an ancient art that many spiritual traditions have practiced for thousands of years.

Spiritual Direction is a time to listen to your life particularities, yearnings, sorrows, and joys. Perhaps you are in a time of discernment, or want to grow in your pray life. A soul friend is present to you with compassion, presence, and is often a mirror for you to discover what you did not know you already knew!

Spiritual direction is not intended to be or replace professional counseling or psychotherapy. Within every person or group there is an energy or spirit at work that vitalizes or drains. Spiritual direction pays attention to the movement of this spirit.

Spiritual direction or guidance can occur individually or with a group. Generally a person meets with a spiritual director once a month, for approximately an hour. Group direction can last for a longer time period.

A spiritual direction relationship can last for months, or even years.

Spiritual direction is a holy relationship of care and accompaniment that brings the Spirit of God alive in the here and now, even if God is rarely named.

Spiritual direction is a gift and needs to be available to every person, from any place, religion, nation, gender or socio-economic background.

Some spiritual directors charge a professional fee, others accept free-will offerings, a
nd others make themselves available to whoever calls or arrives at their door.

An excellent spiritual director could be male or female, ordained, religious, or an ordinary person living down the street.

If you are seeking a spiritual director you will want to ask a potential spiritual director or guide questions in an initial interview meeting, and prayerfully consider your own intentions and desire. Good questions for you to consider are available at the Spiritual Directors International Web site, www.sdiworld.org.

“Spiritual discernment is the art of critical attention that is able to recognize the Divine presence in its expected and unexpected forms. The Divine prayer sustains all life; it never ceases, in every place and in every moment its embrace is there.”

–John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes

Pegge offers spiritual direction in person, and via telephone or skype.
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