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Spiritual Direction is about you exploring your beliefs, experience and understanding of  God. If you encounter a spiritual director who pushes you in his or her direction or attempts to pull you toward a particular path, turn and run! This is not what spiritual direction is supposed to be like.

I bring this up because I’ve been surfing a few spiritual direction websites and blogs and have been shocked at some of the dogmatic and threatening rhetoric I’m seeing from some spiritual directors from the more orthodox traditions. These directors obviously went to different training programs than I and feel entitled to “direct” people around instead of evoking from directees their own sense of where God is leading them.

In this month’s Esquire,  Avengers star Robert Downey, Jr. (a guy who knows a thing or two about what spurs change) has a quote that sums it all up for me.

People never change because they’re under threat or duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to to start moving toward a life worth living. It’s I see a way out of this horrific IRS debt that has been chasing me for years. I have a plan that in time will work, and this will be behind me. I see a direction that is worth heading in. 

Please find a spiritual director that helps you discover the direction worth heading in. Stay away from pushers.