Illuminating Paths

Engaging in spirituality is to seek to understand our vocation or call. But vocation is not about what we do such as a job or career, but rather a way of being in the world, the essence of who we are, that which we have been created by God to be. The spiritual life is one marked by a desire to respond to the simple, yet not easy question: “Who am I created to be in the world?” Spiritual formation is a way of inviting individuals, groups, and communities to listen for God’s call and to live fully into that call. 

We know we are living God’s call for our lives as we experience more freedom, energy, life, and abundance. In talking about this call, Howard Thurman says, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Spirituality is about being fully alive and fully who God has created us to be. It is a journey toward the true self, as Thomas Merton calls it. It is listening to our inner wisdom, that manifestation of God that is in all creation, including each one of us. Spirituality is about peeling away the layers of who we are not, and living abundantly as Beloved ones created in the image of God.

Illuminating Paths offers a number of ways for folks to engage their spiritual lives. Retreats and pilgrimages to sacred places offer time and space to reflect upon our lives and invites us to name intentions as to how we want to be in the world.

We also create opportunities to learn and engage in spiritual practices such as centering prayer, meditation, lectio divina, awareness examen, and others.

If you would like to attend a spirituality retreat, travel on pilgrimage to a sacred place, or work one on one in spiritual direction, please contact us.