You Are Significant.
Not because you have it all together.
Not because your faith is tidy.
Not because you’ve avoided loss.
You are significant because you are loved.
Hi — I’m Michael Rose. I’m a spiritual director, grief and loss specialist, writer based in Alberta, Canada.
For more than 30 years, I’ve walked with people through seasons of change — when faith feels fragile, grief rearranges everything,
or the old answers no longer fit.
My work isn’t about fixing people.
It’s about helping to create honest, steady space where you can breathe and listen for what is true.
Spiritual Direction
Sometimes what we need most isn’t advice — it’s accompaniment.
Spiritual direction is a confidential conversation where we pay attention to your real life — your questions, doubts, longings, and hopes — and gently notice where God may already be present.
I hold a Master of Ministry in Spiritual Formation and a Master of Arts in Theology and Culture. My theological home is Open and Relational —understanding God as love at the center of everything: present, persuasive, and life-giving, never coercive.
What matters most is that you feel safe, heard, and unhurried.
Grief & Loss Support
Grief changes us.
It can unsettle faith and make the world feel unfamiliar. As a certified Grief Recovery specialist and retired hospital chaplain, I’ve walked with individuals and families in some of life’s most tender moments.
I offer steady companionship — not quick answers or spiritual clichés — but space to tell the truth about what hurts and discover how love still holds.
Grief doesn’t need to be rushed. It needs room.
A Different Story
Much of my writing reimagines inherited Christian stories in ways that actually help real people. I’m shaped by Open and Relational Theology and the hopeful vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin — the conviction that love is more original than fear, and more enduring than loss.
I’m the author of Becoming Love, but at heart I’m simply someone who believes love is the truest thing about God — and about you.