Navigating life from the soul. Wayfinding Life is sharing the art of spiritual direction to help people find their way through life.
Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”
They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.”
“But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
Peter answered, “You are the Messiah.”Mark 8: 27 – 29
For over 20 plus years my vocation was as a youth minister within the United Methodist Church and associated organizations. One of the lessons that I often shared with teenagers and young people was this scripture where Jesus asks “Who do you say that I am?” I would ask the young people who they were, and who did people say that they were. The results were often the same, young people ‘were’ the product of what they did. “I am a baseball player.” etc. You can imagine this list. I would implore that they were more than what they did. Their identity was not something that they did but was within who they were created by.
Circle back to two or three years ago. With a growing family and my passion for the day to day church work life waining it felt the proper time to walk away from a vocational life within the church. With that, I tendered a resignation at my current church. What I did not expect was that my own identity had been so tied to being “a youth minister”. An identity so tied to a vocation that I have only recently come to reconcile that this part of what I did was not who I was. I knew better, but it still had become so entrenched in my being that it has taken quite a bit of time to rediscover who I am in a new way.
In the years following I have tinkered, conversed, prayed, wandered, connected and dreamed about who I am and what life looks like with my spiritual walk. In my walk, I have encountered many others on similar walks with deep questions and heartfelt longings to be more than what they feel they are. I call this process for me, a wayfinding life.
I love this definition of wayfinding, found in “Design Your Life” (page 43), “Wayfinding is the ancient art of figuring out where you are going when you don’t actually know your destination. For wayfinding, you need a compass and you need a direction. Not a map – a direction.” Or you can just listen to Maui (from Moana), “It’s called wayfinding, princess. It’s not just sails and knots, it’s seeing where you’re going in your mind. Knowing where you are by knowing where you’ve been.”
We use the ancient practice of spiritual direction to help discover and guide us. From this place of deep-self, we use tools and coaching to help you find your own direction in wayfinding for your life.
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