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Toni Gatlin
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Jesus follower.🕊️ Ex-fundygelical/cultie.❤️‍🩹 Married again.👩‍❤️‍👨 Dog mom.🐶 Wordy/bookish.🤓 Neurosparkly.✨ Contemplative.🧘🏻🙏🏻🌗 Methodist.💒 Seminarian.📚 Texan-American.🌮 Democracy defender.🇺🇸 Suffragette.🗳️ Slow hiker, busy admiring birds/bugs/flowers.🌻
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Sooo I'm in training to become a spiritual director, and apparently it's best to learn with real directees. 🤭 I could use more volunteers so I'm making a public invitation for the first time. 🙏 Could you use some (free!) (not-yet-professional!) (Jesus-centered!) companionship? 1/
Screenshot from graftedlife.org describing spiritual direction. A Safe Place for Your Soul: The Ministry of Spiritual Direction The Christian life often entails times of spiritual uncertainty-situations in which we are unsure of God's will, confused about what God is doing in our circumstances, or generally dry in our relationship with God. Spiritual direction is a safe place to explore your questions and concerns about your life with God. A Christ-centered spiritual director is a trained listener who will accompany you as you share about your spiritual journey, helping you to notice God's presence and activity along the way, as well as your personal reactions and responses. Hospitable, confidential, and grounded in biblical truth, spiritual direction is a ministry that helps you grow in prayer and live into your calling as a follower of Christ. Whether you seek a spiritual director during a specific season of your life or engage with one as part of your regular spiritual practices, spiritual direction is beneficial in many ways. It can connect you in relationship with: Someone with a perspective outside of your normal circles. Someone who reminds you of the basics-God's love, care and constancy through all of life's circumstances. Someone to stay awake with you on the road when you are spiritually weary. Someone who keeps the faith when yours feels weak. Someone to lift you before God while you struggle with issues that aren't solved quickly or easily. Someone to celebrate God's work of transformation with you and for you. Someone who values and loves you in Christ and enjoys giving you that gift in Jesus name.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Deep thanks to the brave historians, lawyers, diplomats, journalists who serve as guiding lights & show us we’re actually NOT crazy to be alarmed at the state of our country.

What a gift to speak briefly with @vermontgmg.bsky.social at #TribFest25! Your work makes a difference and I’m grateful. 🙏🏻
Historian Garrett Graff speaks on a panel with military/natsec expert Alexander Vindman and Ambassador Michael McFaul at #TribFest25
November 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM