Many of us are aware of a hunger for closeness with God that we experience deep within.
What some of us don’t realize, however, is that just as we are searching for union with God, so God longs to draw us ever nearer [to Him/Her]. In fact, God uses all the events of our lives, even the everyday mundane ones, to communicate God’s presence to us. You could say that God wants to find us even more than we want to find God! Spiritual direction is the process of exploring with another individual our being “found” by God. When we are engaged in spiritual direction with another person, we are attempting to deepen our relationship with God by intentionally looking with that person at the many ways God speaks to us. Our whole lives are grist for the mill when we are engaged in spiritual direction, since God tries to be present to us in every facet of our existence.