Connections 22.3: November - Spiritual Directors International

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Connections
The Newsletter of Spiritual Directors International
From the Executive Director
In this season of giving thanks, I am grateful for new
voices and new perspectives. I find inspiration in the next
generation of staff and spiritual directors who are coming
forward to communicate the value of spiritual companionship for our time. New voices and new points of view
are always emerging. Check out the new SDI website—
designed and created by people under forty who care
about spiritual direction—and read these words of wisdom from Katherine Hampton, our new communications
and engagement specialist:
As a new member of the
Spiritual Directors International home office team, I
watch and listen with open
eyes and a receiving heart.
While raised in a deeply religious home, the beautiful
act of spiritual direction is
less familiar to me. Meeting
seekers and spiritual directors online, teaching people
about the ministry and service of spiritual direction,
and editing this publication have been an awakening
and rejuvenating experience. I am slowly but surely
connecting with seekers and members across faith
traditions, generations, and time zones. I find myself
in awe of the mosaic of people God has brought
together to carry forward the sacred tradition of spiritual direction.
Part of my role with SDI will be supporting the 2014
cohort of new contemplatives during the Emerging
Wisdom conference. The cohort of new contemplatives is a group of people, under the age of forty, with
a passion for spiritual direction. It has been thrilling
to read applications from young contemplatives who
have a strong passion to seek new and emerging wisdom. The common thread among the applicants has
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been a deep trust in, and respect for, the ancient wisdom that we practice today. That consistent message
resonates deeply with me; in order to see where we
are going, we must first know where we have been.
As a younger member of this community, I am
thankful for the warm welcome I have received and
the graciousness I have experienced. I am taking the
time to read and study the history of SDI and spiritual
direction so that I may listen with you to where the
Spirit is leading the ministry and service of spiritual
direction. I couldn’t be
happier to be a part of
an embracing community,
who values the ancient
traditions of the past, and
is listening for new and
emerging wisdom.
Katherine will help Spiritual
Direc tors
International
communicate and engage
with a world of seekers and
spiritual companions on the
web, in print, and in person.
With her background in higher
education, Katherine has a keen interest in communicating
more effectively with students and interns in training and
formation programs.
In this issue of Connections, you will find inspiring articles
by a new contemplative and spiritual directors living in
Ireland, Germany, South Africa, and the United States.
Thank you for the many ways you provide spiritual inspiration and encouragement. You are transforming the world
with your compassion and wisdom.
Peace be with you,
Liz Budd Ellmann, MDiv
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God Is and Will Remain
the Spiritual Director
Rev. Dr. Michael Platig, OCARM
[North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]
When I started working as a pastor, I had a key
experience: Once I sat by the bedside of a man
suffering from terminal cancer. I held his hand and
recited the rosary all night long. Towards five o’clock
in the morning, he had a fright and lay wide-eyed. I
thought that he would pass away any moment, but
he relaxed again and spoke the following words:
“I thought for a moment that God had abandoned
me, but you are still here, Father.” I felt that this was
a key sentence for pastoral care, and I would now
say that it also is for spiritual direction, because it
shows something very important. This terminally ill
man said that, to him, my presence, my simply being
there had something to do with the presence of
God. This was something that was obvious to him,
that I need not explain; he had become aware of
this connection intuitively. At the same time, he had
defined my role as a pastor and spiritual director,
as my presence will always indicate the presence of
God.
I would like to explain this further with the help of
Carmelite spirituality. John of the Cross already
recognized the risk when a spiritual director is
made into a guru or that he or she tries to mould
the spiritual directee according to his or her own
standards, thus making the person receiving spiritual
direction dependent on the spiritual director.
These [spiritual] directors should reflect that
they themselves are not the chief agent, guide,
and mover of souls in this matter, but that the
principal guide is the Holy Spirit, Who is never
neglectful of souls, and that they are instruments
for directing them to perfection through faith
and the law of God, according to the spirit God
gives each one. Thus the [spiritual] director’s
whole concern should not be to accommodate
souls to his own method and condition, but he
should observe the road along which God is
leading them, and if he does not recognize it, he
should leave them alone and not bother them.
And in harmony with the path and spirit along
which God leads them, the spiritual director
should strive to conduct them into greater
solitude, tranquillity, and freedom of spirit. (John
of the Cross, The Living Flame of Love, 3.46)
Spiritual accompaniment means to track down the
Holy Spirit within a person and to help to find the
individual’s path. Inevitably this way leads to tension
because the spiritual director simply does not know
what the other person’s path looks like. Even if it seems
reasonable to him or her, giving outside advice always
contains the danger of projecting something into the
other person. To bear this emptiness and not to rashly
fill it with one’s own wisdom, to resist the temptation
of giving a simple piece of advice, to consistently look
for the Spirit’s work in the other person, are the tasks
and the demands of spiritual accompaniment as John
of the Cross and the Carmelite tradition understand it.
Spiritual accompaniment takes place in the tension
between faith in the work of God in humans, and—in
the words of John of the Cross—“the intelligence of
the companion”. This tension cannot simply be eased
by what the companion would decide or by framing it
with a given concept. ❉
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Incarnate Justice and Holy Listening …
for the Sake of Others
Rev. Dr. Brenda Buckwell [Ohio, USA]
Incarnation—the Word of God becoming flesh—is
the picture that captivated my heart as I gazed at the
restored edition of the Saint John’s Bible residing at
Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, USA.
My soul leapt with yearning as the constant call to
become even more nearly formed “in the image of
Christ for the sake of others” echoed through my mind.
This definition of Christian spiritual formation, first
coined by Robert Mulholland Jr. in his book Shaped by
the Word, embodies for me the Wesleyan spirit of how
God longs to love each of us into our most authentic
self, and for us to live that deeply embodied divine
presence of compassion and service to others. It is this
foundation of incarnation that anchors justice, service,
and faith formation in the United Methodist tradition.
For over twenty-five years of pastoral ministry within
this Wesleyan tradition, I have experienced the
transforming power and presence of God leading
those who hunger and thirst for something beyond self
into profound and mysterious union with the Divine.
At First United Methodist Church in Zanesville, Ohio,
USA, the weary band of faint- hearted believers were
ignited into the burning passion and flame of God’s
presence as they gathered to pray together through
the ancient practice of lectio divina. Listening deeply
to the inner stirrings of the Holy Spirit, the leadership
team birthed a community ministry, which shares the
incarnate compassion and presence of God to more
than ten thousand neighbors.
congregation in a violent, poverty-ridden area of
Columbus, Ohio, has brought to life the integration
of spiritual direction and care for the marginalized.
Through a program loosely based upon the twelve
steps of recovery, Celebrate! Café feeds the body
and nourishes the soul. Facilitators of small groups
are trained in the art of holy listening. They gain the
ability to hold lightly the stories of others and assist
in opening space for the homeless, the marginalized,
and those nearly forgotten, to experience a place of
belonging in the divine embrace of community. These
small groups of spiritual direction lend divine healing,
wholeness of life, and encourage transformation of
individual and community life.
The wisdom of integrating spiritual direction as
foundation to the institutional church provides a lived
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century. As holy listening and incarnate presence of
God emerges in community, the reality of twentyfirst century wisdom is reborn, and the God-shaped
emptiness within us that only God can fill, is birthed
into its full beauty. ❉
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Walking in the Footsteps
of Hildegard of Bingen
Christine Valters Paintner [Galway, Ireland]
Recently on the Spiritual Directors International
pilgrimage to Germany, I had the opportunity to stand
in the monastic enclosure where it is believed that
Hildegard of Bingen, along with her mentor Jutta,
spent many years beginning at age fourteen. The cell
would have had two windows: one into the church so
the women could participate in the community prayers
and the other to the outside
where food could be given
to them and visitors could
come to seek spiritual
guidance and counsel.
It was powerful to imagine
this scene of pilgrims
traveling there, with the
questions and concerns of
their twelfth century world
weighing heavily on them.
I imagine that many of
their prayers were not so
very different than our own
today: a loved one who is
ill, the sense of God calling them to something beyond
their perceived ability, seeking solace for grief and
sorrow, or the experience of doubt.
Poetry
Whatever the specifics of these concerns were, it was
enough to compel them to make the journey up the
hill to the monastery at Disibodenberg and seek the
wisdom of these young women whose lives were
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O Moving Force of Wisdom
Hildegard of Bingen [RhinelandPalatinate, Germany]
O moving force of Wisdom, encircling the wheel
of the cosmos,
Encompassing all that is, all that has life,
in one vast circle.
You have three wings: The first unfurls aloft
in the highest heights.
The second dips its way dripping sweat on the
Earth.
Over, under, and through all things whirls the third.
Praise to you, O Wisdom worthy of praise! ❉
dedicated to this service of presence, devoted to the
praise of God, and committed to offering solace to
those with weary hearts.
When Hildegard began having visions again in midlife,
at first she resisted writing them down. With the wise
counsel of her own dear mentors and soul friends, and
the physical vitality which drained away in her time of
resisting God’s call, she finally relented and wrote her
first book of visions as a gift to the world. Hildegard
experienced the power of receiving spiritual direction
and guidance directly in her own life.
Hildegard eventually left
her enclosure to found
her own community. But
she had spent almost
forty years in this place
which had shaped her
in profound ways. She
continued living by the
rhythms of the Benedictine
life and as her fame grew,
offered spiritual direction
to lay people, other nuns,
clerics, and even bishops
and the pope.
In monastic tradition, the
cell is always meant to be an outward symbol of an
inner reality—the place within each of us where we
encounter the Divine most intimately. Time spent in the
cell is meant to be on behalf of others and the world.
Hildegard’s call was to move out from the enclosure
which sustained her for half her lifetime and extend the
creative and contemplative path even more widely.
As spiritual directors, we too are called to spend time
in this cell of contemplation and encounter with the
sacred presence in our innermost being. Having a
place of retreat and time of pause regularly is what
nourishes us to return back to the community, with
greater depth and wisdom to bring to our listening.
Saint Hildegard was a remarkable woman in so many
ways, steeped in “listening with the ear of her heart”
the first line from the Benedictine Rule, which was
foundational to her spiritual formation. We might
consider her to be one of the patron saints of our call
to the ministry and service of spiritual direction. ❉
The next issue of Connections will feature more stories,
photos, and poetry from the Interfaith Pilgrimage to
Germany: In the Footsteps of Hildegard of Bingen.
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Wisdom of the Seed
Helen Kwon [California, USA]
The ancient teachers of the historic spiritual traditions
drew many of their insights from the cosmos and
the earth around them. This path to wisdom is again
renewing itself, lovingly and powerfully creeping up
on us, like vines climbing up and surrounding concrete
buildings that we have created to enclose ourselves in.
I recently shared with a farm worker colleague about
deep anxiety I was feeling in the face of ongoing
work instability. I expressed frustration in my desire
to “help” people, and feelings of shame that I’m not
making more of my life. “Helen,” she slowly remarked,
“I feel like you are a seed that is trying to immediately
produce a plant and fruit in your life. It takes time, and
maybe compost, to get there.” What followed from
that invitation to reimagine my life through the lens of a
seed was powerful interior messages about simplicity,
humility, waiting, silence, and a downward journey into
the soil that precedes any so-called upward growth. I
experienced a not-knowing that pre-dates judgment,
a terrifying aloneness that is yet surrounded by the
womb of Gaia/Sophia/Life itself— and connected with
all other beings in nature. My act of non-violence in this
moment is to accept myself. My work is to see myself,
to be with myself, and to be with the overwhelming
discomfort of uncertainty.
The emerging impulse towards greater alignment with
nature and ourselves is translating into expressions
of non-violent resistance in modern life. Busy moms,
professionals, and prisoners turn to yoga and
meditation to connect to their breath—the silence of
nature within their bodies. Urban communities of color
are growing their own food creatively, collaboratively,
and free of chemicals in places from which corporate
supermarkets have fled. Social media, mimicking the
vast network structures in nature, is playing a significant
role in the grassroots movement against dictatorships
in the Middle East and North Africa. Towards the
end of his life, at his last speech to the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, Martin Luther King
Jr. questioned the economic structures that contribute
to poverty: “And one day we must ask the question,
‘Why are there forty million poor people in America?’
… You see, my friends, when you deal with this you
begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the oil?’ You
begin to ask the question, ‘Who owns the iron ore?’
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You begin to ask the question, ‘Why is it that people
have to pay water bills in a world that’s two-thirds
water?’ These are the questions that must be asked.”
Nature— reflecting our true being—in contrast to
systems that concentrate wealth and defensively claim
ownership of nature itself, is abundant and generous.
Can un-dealt- with violence, including self-violence,
in my heart and mind, not translate into violence on a
social and planetary level? Ultimately, can the interior
mystical path be separated from transformational work
towards harmony with all people and planet?
The seed, in all its humility, has at its powerful center,
both the energies and expanse of the cosmos, and the
simple surrender of self. ❉
On Grace
Mags Blackie [Cape Town, South Africa]
“Let God be God.” This is a phrase I have used for
many years in the context of both giving spiritual
direction and training spiritual directors. I cannot say
whether the phrase is mine or whether I picked it up
from someone else.
For me, it has its origins in giving eight-day, individuallyguided retreats. Over time I began to notice that
sooner or later, God would show up. Around day
four, five, or six, something would shift in the dynamic
of the retreat. Sometimes it would be a significant
encounter with God, sometimes a shift in the central
desire or issue that had been expressed earlier on, and
sometimes some other change. Each time the change
was notable and each time there was an element of
surprise. This was the grace of the retreat.
In recent years, I have noticed this dynamic of grace
at work in on-going spiritual direction too. It is most
evident in—although not limited to—those places of
“stuckness” which we sometimes encounter. Those
places where we have done the mental and emotional
work necessary to overcome a problem, but there is
still something which constrains us. In those times I
have discovered a glimmer of hope.
If I dare to own my stuckness and to hold it before God,
I begin to accept my powerlessness. As intelligent and
emotionally grounded as I may be, there are still things
that are beyond me. When I can stand before God in
the nakedness of that place, I can begin to pray for the
grace to move through it. In my experience the grace
is always given—although it may take some time—and
a way forward will open up.
There is an important caveat though: the way forward
rarely looks the way I expect it to. Even if I know that
I need to let go of something, the lived experience of
the letting go will not be quite what I anticipate. This
element of surprise means that I could not have willed
myself into freedom precisely because I was not able
to envision what it would actually entail. I understand
this transition to be grace.
This process requires discernment: sifting out the
things I am able to do from those over which I am
powerless. To act where I can, but to acknowledge
and own my incapacity when I uncover the heart
of my problem requires that I am able to relinquish
control and to trust that God will find a way through. In
essence, it is the paradox at the heart of the practice of
spiritual direction—intentionally holding the process,
but having no fixed outcome in mind.
Letting God be God is being true to the fullness of
my humanity. This entails using all my giftedness and
being present to my own limitations. In this space, the
grace of God can flow unimpeded. ❉
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Sandra Ann Linderman
Shirley D. Lindner
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Shawne Mitchell
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Natala Mohl
Dr. Amy Sander Montanez
Cecelia D. Mooney
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Sr. Mary Mortz, DMJ, PhD
Rev. Marcella Mugford
Su C. Murdock, LCSW
Rev. Martin Murdock
Ms. Emilie B. Murphy
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Mr. Kieran Murphy
Rev. Dr. Joan Lee Murray, BCC, DMin
Mrs. Laura A. Murray, LCSW
Alice F. Nahas
June Chun Naughton
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Caren A. Olson
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Rita M. Perea, EdS
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Nery Quintela, MFT, GC
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SDI Interfaith Pilgrimage
to Scotland: Iona
7 - 14 J U N E 2014
Listening to the Wisdom of the Island
Are you longing for a deeper relationship with the peace beyond understanding?
Join SDI pilgrim guides from the United Kingdom, Andrew and Wendy Rudd and
Sally Taylor, as we listen for spiritual guidance from the sacred island of Iona.
For centuries, Iona has drawn spiritual seekers to encounter Mystery.
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In the Footsteps of Hildegard of Bingen
Is Saint Hildegard calling you to walk in her footsteps? Join SDI as we experience the landscapes
and rhythms that nourished Hildegard of Bingen, mystic, poet, healer, and spiritual director.
Let Saint Hildegard become your soul companion as you discover viriditas, the greening
power of God, and embrace the legacy of her creative outpourings as gifts for our time.
Everyone seeking to be nourished
by Saint Hildegard’s wisdom is welcome.
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