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What is your hope for Holy Invitations?

Most of all I hope that Holy Invitations draws people to savor their unique relationship with God with its numerous variations, and to reflect upon how they are now feeling nudged to nurture their love for God and be more open to listening to God's generous grace in an ongoing way. It is a book about making oneself available to hear and respond to God and to be God's person in the world.

The Christian discipline of spiritual direction is one way to heighten people's awareness of their own journeys, to ask for grace to make gentle adjustments. The questions at the end of each chapter are intended to enable prayerful reflection. So, in a sense, the book asks the same kinds of questions that readers would be considering if they were participating in spiritual direction with a director. Reading and responding to these questions is a way to try on spiritual direction—and hopefully readers will then decide to talk to someone about what they are noticing. It can be a way to invite the Holy Spirit to guide their prayer and reflection—their life.

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Baker Books has more information about the book, including a short article by acquisitions editor Robert N. Hosack about how the book affected him.

Spiritual Directors International seeks to "connect and network spiritual directors," and has both a newsletter and journal.

Several other articles online describe the role of the spiritual director.

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April 23 2001, Vol. 45, No. 6