Guenther uses the images of the Spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of Spiritual Direction today.
I hope some dark corners will be illuminated and some questions answered..
Or perhaps they wonder about receiving direction, whether it is a ministry available to \'ordinary people\' or reserved for the especially holy.
Perhaps they feel the stirring of their own unacknowledged gifts.
I am speaking to the beginner, those persons lay or ordained, with or without formal theological training, who find themselves drawn to this ministry.
In the pages that follow, I will attempt to describe the shape that Spiritual Direction might take for people of our time, aware that the subject is an elusive one.
The stories of real people bring the practice of Spiritual Direction alive.
She pays particular attention to Spiritual Direction for women, and addresses such down-to-earth questions as setting, time, and privacy.
Guenther uses the images of the Spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of Spiritual Direction today
