This past week I had the opportunity to talk to college students about what leadership means - specifically leading from the heart. I was struck by some of the words that they first used to describe leadership - chiefly authority. 
The truth is that authority doesn't come from a title but from your character. Are you trust worthy? Do you show compassion and care? Do you model integrity, honesty, and loyalty?
Sometimes folks get confused about the phrase "spiritual direction" thinking that it is someone who is going to tell them what to do in their spiritual life - having authority over them. But it's about accompanying another person meeting them where they are. 
Who is coming alongside you on your spiritual journey?

For Trick-or-Treat, the church I serve had a table in our driveway. We stuffed 400 bags for the kids coming through that evening and had more pounds of candy than I could count. 

We ran out of everything in an hour and twenty minutes. 

Of course, there were still more trick-or-treaters coming, even as we were breaking down the tables and turning off the light. When I told one little boy that we didn't have any more candy, he sat right down on the pavement and started to cry. 

Was that little boy sad? Of course. But he was also overstimulated by all that night had entailed. 

There are times I sit down and cry as well. Perhaps not physically, but certainly in my spirit, when I become overstimulated and overwhelmed. And that is something that I bring to Spiritual Direction. Those moments that I can't sort through on my own because I'm in the thick of it. I want someone to help me see with more grace and clarity what I can't in the moment. 

​What do you do when your spirit becomes overstimulated? 

This past week I had the opportunity to talk to college students about what leadership means - specifically leading from the heart. I was struck by some of the words that they first used to describe leadership - chiefly authority. 

The truth is that authority doesn't come from a title but from your character. Are you trust worthy? Do you show compassion and care? Do you model integrity, honesty, and loyalty?

Sometimes folks get confused about the phrase "spiritual direction" thinking that it is someone who is going to tell them what to do in their spiritual life - having authority over them. But it's about accompanying another person meeting them where they are. 

​Who is coming alongside you on your spiritual journey?