Tuning your ear to God is a holy task, and once you do that, you’ll notice God’s direction in every interaction, and it may be less signposts to guide your next steps, but an inner peace that helps to know how to act in the very moment you find yourself in.
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I am a gardener, and so I often think about the fact, reflect on the ways in which what happens in the garden, it has a lot of resonance with what happens in spiritual direction. I think that years ago, I was on a panel discussion in San Antonio with a hermit named Kelly Nimick, who's a Roman Catholic member of the Order of Mary Immaculate, and he lives at a retreat center in South Texas called Lep Shomea, and someone put to Kelly the question about direction, and he said, God is directing us all the time, and all of us need to be open to that direction, and that was really a formative moment for me, because I've been thinking kind of in more restrictive, if that's the right term, certainly more clearly delineated notions of what direction is about. I think in some ways, for example, parenting has a directive capacity. I think friendship in its deepest way is often directive, and I’d be lost without my spiritual friends. I truly would be lost.1