Creating the description for the title of my Blog I thought would be difficult, but it came to me quite easily. There are a myriad of ways to describe a life
and countless ways to describe God. No matter how we would say our life is
going or where our relationship with God is at - God still wants to hear from us. And that's what I hope to encourage in all of us: A heart for God.
Since
having a spiritual director, and becoming one myself, I find that every day is
lived in a new way – in a new consciousness of God’s Presence. What this awareness has done for me is to
create a new heart within me. I have a more prayerful heart, if you will.
I
have come to realize more fully that God is closer to me than I am to myself,
as St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions,
“But you were more inward than my own
inwardness.” I like to tell my directees
that God is just a breath away. But in
essence, the Creator is who gives us each breath we breathe.
As a spiritual director, I want to help
people to see where God is in their everyday lives – in the strange
wonderfulness of nature, in the people we hold dear as well as those we just
pass with a smile, and in how we are able to silently read this page. Everything is a gift from the Universe! We can develop a prayerful heart by first
learning to be grateful. Just as you
give that smile or nod to a stranger you pass at the office or in the coffee
shop, we can start by doing the same with God.
If “Thank you” is too many syllables, just say “Thanks” and mean it.
