Reflections, teachings, and honest observations from the Solace direction process — offered for anyone on the road, whether or not they are currently in direction.
"The examined life is not a luxury. It is the condition under which a person becomes fully available — to God, to others, and to themselves."
— Jon Cron, Solace Initiative
Most people who find their way to spiritual direction arrive having already spent months — sometimes years — in a place they could not name. The practices that once sustained them have gone quiet. The certainty has thinned. They have not stopped believing. They have stopped being able to perform their belief. This is not a crisis. This is a threshold.
"What feels like loss is often the removal of what was never load-bearing to begin with."
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There is a better framing: “Because I am already a son/daughter, I can trust the Father in the darkness — including the darkness He Himself ordains for my formation.”
Stillness is not the absence of noise. It is the refusal to be ruled by it. A short reflection on why the practice is harder than it sounds — and why that difficulty is exactly the point.
Every new directee arrives with some version of the same apology: I don't really know where to start. Here is what I tell them every time — and why that starting place is exactly right.
A personal account of the long residence — and what was built in the dark that could not have been built anywhere else. For anyone who is currently in the Wall and wondering if it is doing anything.
The fourth intentional is the most resisted — especially among people in service to others. A direct look at why longevity is not a luxury, and what depletion is actually costing the mission.
Stillness is caught before it is taught. A reflection on why the formation of the director matters as much as the formation of the directee — and what that requires in practice.
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The writing points toward the process. Direction is where the process actually happens — in conversation, in silence, at your pace. The first session is always complimentary.
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