About
Meet Jill
Jill is a Spiritual Director based in Denver, Colorado, though she meets with clients virtually from anywhere in the world. Jill’s passion is witnessing God moving in the lives of those around her. She finds joy in holding space for someone to notice the invitations and voice of God. Her hope is to create a spiritually healthy culture among leaders and direct service providers.
Jill has been married to Brian for over 30 years and enjoys witnessing her three adult children and her DIL and SIL grow into their vocations as image bearers of God. One of her greatest joys is spending time with her three beautiful grandkids.
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Jill has additional extensive experience working closely with Trauma and providing Trauma-informed care. She has 20+ years of working with at-risk youth. For the past ten years, she has worked closely with a team to successfully build and direct a stability program for single parents and families experiencing homelessness.
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The practices Jill employs in SD sessions include: Breath work, Imaginative Prayer, Listening Prayer, and Spiritual Formation
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Received a 2- year certificate in Spiritual Direction from Sustainable Faith Spiritual Direction Program
Trauma-informed Care
Extended Course work in attachment theory.
Why Spiritual Direction?
Are you longing for spiritual sustainability in your life, your work, and your soul? Do you yearn to take your relationship with God from your head to your heart, from knowledge to experience?
Why “Finding Hesed”?
Hesed is another one of those biblical words—in this case a Hebrew word—that we have struggled to translate into one single word in English.
In different versions of the Bible, you may see it translated as “mercy,” “kindness,” “goodness”, “faithfulness,” and “loyalty.” To capture it more successfully, some translators have used more than one word: “steadfast love,” “loyal love,” or “loving-kindness.”
My favorite is “a love that never let’s go”.
Honestly, we can only love like this, with hesed loving-kindness, when we know, at the core of our being, that this is how God loves us. As 1 John 4:19 reminds us, “We love because he first loved us.”
One scholar invites us to read Psalm 136 “ to see just how deep and wide God’s hesed loving-kindness is. According to that psalm, in which every phrase ends with “His hesed endures forever,” God even made the heavens, the sun, the moon, and the stars, because of His hesed. He gives food to all flesh for the same reason. He delivered His people from slavery, overthrew kings who opposed them, and gave them land to live in—all because of His hesed. He remembered His people in their low estate, because of His hesed.”
It is only when we are confidently experiencing this love of God that we can offer to others.
To love others as we should, we first need to understand how deeply and irrevocably God loves his people.