Discover God’s presence in everyday life

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Beauty in the Ordinary

Exploring Everyday Spirituality

Where does your spiritual life happen? Perhaps you think of prayer, worship, or time away on retreat.

But what about preparing a meal, finishing a day’s work, listening to someone you love, or navigating a difficult conversation? These ordinary moments make up so much of our lives. They also offer opportunities to become attentive to God’s presence.

This October, CenterQuest’s Lifelong Learning Community invites you to Beauty in the Ordinary: Exploring Everyday Spirituality, a four-week online course with Wil Hernandez and Heather Maddox.

Drawing on Christian spirituality and Benedictine wisdom, we’ll explore a way of seeing that recognizes the sacred within everyday life. Our journey will make room for beauty, wonder, and simple joy—as well as humility and struggle as places of spiritual formation.

Through reflection, spiritual practice, and learning together, we’ll attend more closely to the life we are already living.

You may be longing to slow down. You may want to connect your faith more deeply with daily responsibilities. Or you may welcome companions with whom to explore these questions.

We invite you to join us.

Meet Your Facilitators

Wil Hernandez

Wil is CenterQuest’s founder and executive director. A trained counselor, spiritual director, and Benedictine Oblate, he accompanies seekers on their spiritual journeys. As an author of a Henri Nouwen trilogy, Wil shares Nouwen’s enduring wisdom, inviting deeper engagement with the life of faith, prayer, and surrender.

Heather Maddox

Heather is a spiritual director and trained counselor in trauma-informed psychospiritual care. She serves as mentor at CenterQuest’s School of Spiritual Direction. Rooted in Celtic traditions, Heather listens deeply with grace and compassion as people share their stories and navigate life’s thresholds.