During my Wednesday night women’s
group, a quote caught my attention in the Matthew Kelly book “Resisting
Happiness.” His father told him to
listen to the coach every time he went to his games. One day, he added this to the conversation, “...
nobody achieves excellence at anything without coaching.”
Of
course, Matthew talked about how people as Christians need coaches, spiritual
coaches. I am so happy to say that I
have a lot of people in my life that help me along the journey of holiness. My women’s group that meets every week
encourages and advises. I have many
other strong Christians in my life, including my priest and deacon at my
parish. However, I could be doing more?
I
have heard people talk about going to a Spiritual Director. I have thought about looking into this, but
my life seems so very busy. I am sure we
have some amazing people in town that could work with me. Any of the priests or deacons probably do this
type of work. I would think we have a
couple of nuns in the area too. But, I
go back to the time.
Of
course, another area where I could be coached is in reconciliation. Yep, confession. Oh, that is always scary, and do I ever resist
it. I make the excuse that I grew up Protestant. We confessed directly to God and were
forgiven. That was enough. Well, it was then. But I have been to confession a number of
times. Never has the experience been
bad. I have always had something to
think about. And all but one issue of
mine was handled perfectly. I need to go
more often.
So,
going forward, I am thinking about spiritual coaching a little bit more, along
with confession. I would love to say
that I am going to be active in the process. Time will tell.
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