Rose Robinson

When speaking about I like to think of Spiritual Direction through the metaphor of hiking: like climbing up a hillside and turning to looking over the landscape. It is a space to look and to notice where you’ve been, how that’s been and to notice what you’re carrying. I take it as given that ordinary life is holy and is the realm where we can see God; but that often in the flow of the day to day we don’t get the space to stop and notice.

Spiritual Direction sessions can be a place to explore who God has been for you in your journey, and what that’s been like. Sometimes a distant valley will seem important to explore, sometimes it’s a moment on life’s trails from this week. Whatever comes up, it is my experience and belief that God is at work in Spiritual Direction conversations to bring life, light and direction in the ordinary, holy, set-apart space of direction.

My own experience is that I stand a little taller after spiritual direction: there can be revelation that can be food for the journey ahead, or a chance to ‘repack’ what you’re carrying. Either way, I feel like I leave with my posture altered for the walk ahead. Personally most of the time I don’t know what I will say when I go to spiritual direction – but the discipline of going and the space itself have been so transformative for me.

This is what I hope to offer through the direction space and I see my role is to pay attention and support directees in their reflection – while we both trust that somehow in the conversation the Holy Spirit is at work.

Came to faith as a teenager in an evangelical Presbyterian church, and have been part of Baptist communities and Anglican missional communities. I have led a church community and worked in pastoral care. Currently am part of my local Anglican Church Parish.

In my 20s my most important spiritual practices were being part of communal rhythms of hospitality, mission and prayer and as a Mother to a young son my most important spiritual practice has been gratitude, noticing what I notice and bringing that to God in prayer and finding moments to pray in the hum-drum of the day.