Hi, I’m Danielle Wheeler.
I’m a spiritual director who believes God’s love transforms. Finding my identity as God’s beloved has changed everything for me. It’s my joy to walk with others in receiving all that God has for them.
I’m a wife and mother to four. My address has changed more times than my fingers can count, from my birth place in Colorado to the Andes mountains of Ecuador to the high rises of Beijing to my small town Missouri home. My role has changed almost as many times. I’ve been a missionary, an executive director and founder of Velvet Ashes, a minister’s wife, a professor’s wife.
For many years my relationship with God centered around what I could do for God. Spiritual direction and sacred rhythms transformed my relationship with God into one of intimacy, where being with God and hearing from God became the center from which everything flows.
I’d love to meet you and explore what’s stirring in you. What are you longing for? What are you wrestling with? What hard questions do you have for God? Spiritual direction is a safe space for all of this.
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual direction began in the early church and has been practiced by God’s people throughout the centuries.
Spiritual direction is a companionship that focuses on the movement and voice of God in a person’s life. It is a space for attentive listening to God for all areas of life - relationships, decisions, struggles, and joys. Spiritual direction is for all seasons of life.
My training in spiritual direction was through Selah, a biblical, contemplative, and trinitarian model. This means that our times will be grounded in the truths of God’s word. It will be contemplative, with times of silence as we rest in God’s presence and listen to God’s voice. It will be trinitarian, meaning you will be tended to by the Holy Father, through the work of Jesus the Son, by the presence of the Holy Spirit.
WHy Olive?
Trace the imagery of the olive through Scripture…
A dove carried an olive branch to Noah as he floated in the ark. When all seemed lost, the olive branch was a sign of HOPE.
The Good Samaritan gathered up a beaten and broken man on the roadside and tended to his wounds with olive oil. When all seemed broken, olive oil was a means for HEALING.
Prophets and kings were appointed to their roles with the anointing of olive oil. When a calling felt too much, olive oil was a sign of EMPOWERING.
Jesus retreated to a sacred space to be alone with God to pray. The olive grove was a place of INTIMACY.
The olive shows us hope, healing, empowering and intimacy. This is what God longs to give you. This is what happens through the transforming love of God. This is what spiritual direction can help you receive.