Beloved Living Now

My Journey

Belovedness captured my heart at a Soul Care retreat in the Colorado Mountains in 2018. I have never been the same. I will never go back. Discovering, embracing, and internalizing that I was God's Beloved changed me profoundly. This transformed me, and now it informs everything I do. I want everyone that I encounter to discover, embrace, and live out their Belovedness, too.

It changed my life to know that my Belovedness is not based on performance but upon a relationship with God, whose very nature is love. Spiritual Direction provides a grace-filled, safe environment to plumb the depths of God’s love. As a spiritual director, I delight to walk with another person seeking to help them to deepen their love relationship and friendship with God.

I bring to spiritual direction more than 45 years of life experience as a pastor and missionary. I’ve experienced both great joys and devastating heartaches in life and ministry. There have been victories and brokenness, but God’s grace has been sufficient, and He never stopped working to bring me to this moment in my spiritual journey.

At the Soul Care retreat mentioned above, I experienced spiritual direction for the first time. I’ve never gotten over that, either. In that loving, safe place, I began to share the condition of my soul. It needed healing, it was hurting, and I really didn’t know what to do. I shared hopes and dreams as well as brokenness and pain. I have never felt more loved and safe.

I then enrolled in the Soul Care Institute, a two-year intensive study of learning to care for your total person - Body, Soul, and Spirit - for your sake and the sake of others. Spiritual direction was an integral part of the SCI. God has worked greatly in my life through spiritual direction and ultimately, I have become a spiritual director.

I have a passion for walking with others on their spiritual journeys. I want to journey with them toward Belovedness and caring for their soul. As two people listen together to the Holy Spirit as spiritual friends and companions, God will speak, His love will be revealed, and lives will be touched in new and vibrant ways. I would love to walk with you toward a deeper friendship with God.

My wife, Kristi is also a spiritual director. You may find her at https://spiritualdirectionkp.com

We have been married for over 47 years. We have two married children and seven amazing grandchildren. I served as pastor of churches in Texas and Missouri. We served as international missionaries in Venezuela for 12 years. I recently retired after serving the Bledsoe Association of Churches as Association Mission Strategist.

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About Mike Pennington

My Journey

Dialogue continually moves from the surface to the depths, from the external to the internal.

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Qualifications and Certifications

About Mike Pennington

My Journey

Dialogue continually moves from the surface to the depths, from the external to the internal.

Ready to take the first step?

Qualifications and Certifications

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