How Long Into Spiritual Direction Did You Start Discerning the Monastery?

Father Michael and I would like almost never have spiritual direction just like sitting in the church it was always like we were having scotch in a cigar or at a coffee shop. "I told him things that I'd never told anyone in my life and just like poured it all out," she says of their first meeting. He's been her spiritual father for 12 years, but he has no interest in becoming an ordained priest."He really gave me a lot of a lot of hope."