A 40-year-old takes 40 hikes
How Roger Owens walked his way through a midlife crisis of faith
spiritual director
He leaned back and sighed. “I think what you need is a spiritual experience.”
Spiritual Companioning, by Angela H. Reed, Richard R. Osmer, and Marcus G. Smucker
The authors of Spiritual Companioning suggest a way forward for those disenchanted with polite, shallow church relationships.
At age 29 I cried out to an empty universe in the first authentic prayer of my life: "God, if you are, I need help!" The help came in ways I couldn't imagine.
In philosophy and practice, spiritual direction suggests that the individual self is insufficient as a locus of meaning. No one can "do" spiritual direction alone.
Until I encountered spiritual direction, my prayer life was filled almost entirely with words.
