PARENTS AS SPIRITUAL PARENTS AS SPIRITUAL DIRECTORSDIRECTORS

How it can work in a church setting

The church has a trained Spiritual

Director

or two

Parents receive regular Spiritual

Direction from the Spiritual Director

Here they attend to their own spiritual life and learn how to be a good spiritual director

Parents provide Spiritual Direction for their children

The parents listen and ask questions to help children identify how God is speaking to them

Parents can offer help with the Disciplines

Which can become the subject of more Spiritual Direction conversations

Parents then take their experiences as a Spiritual Director to the church Spiritual Director for supervision

They discuss what the parent's conversation with their children reveals about the parent's own relationship with God