Welcome back. You belong here. One of the big themes in my life lately has been leading well for the second half of my life. This last week, four pastors from our staff spent time at the Mt. Calvary Anglican monastery in Santa Barbara for prayer, lectio divina and meditation while in community. It was […]

Welcome back. It’s been a while. You still belong here, and so do I. The name of this blog is Spring of My Soul. I still like that name. It’s still what’s happening in my life. The title came from reading Psalm 27 Psalm 27:13 I am still confident of this:I will see the goodness

Welcome back. It’s been a while. You still belong here, and so do I. The name of this blog is Spring of My Soul. I still like that name. It’s still what’s happening in my life. The title came from reading Psalm 27 Psalm 27:13 I am still confident of this:I will see the goodness

Welcome back. You belong here. I’ll be doing a blog fast for the next 3 days: Friday-Sunday. I’ll start up again next Monday. It’ll be good for me, less writing and thinking out loud here and more processing, praying. I got the idea from TallSkinnyKiwi: The Spirituality of Not Blogging. Here’s what he had to

Welcome back. You belong here. I’ll be doing a blog fast for the next 3 days: Friday-Sunday. I’ll start up again next Monday. It’ll be good for me, less writing and thinking out loud here and more processing, praying. I got the idea from TallSkinnyKiwi: The Spirituality of Not Blogging. Here’s what he had to

Welcome back. You are welcomed here. Last night slash early this morning it all came to a head. Couldn’t sleep, worried about a million little things, feeling attacked in the usual areas – you’re not important, God can’t use you, comparing myself to others who seem to have it all together, focusing on all I’m

Welcome back. You are welcomed here. Last night slash early this morning it all came to a head. Couldn’t sleep, worried about a million little things, feeling attacked in the usual areas – you’re not important, God can’t use you, comparing myself to others who seem to have it all together, focusing on all I’m

Welcome back. You are welcomed here. Sometimes the blog writing ‘gene’ just isn’t there. You know what I’m talking about. This is such a time. Not much to say. In terms of song writing, I’m not writing much either, instead I’m learning new melodies. I don’t want to write more songs in the same way

Welcome back. You are welcomed here. Sometimes the blog writing ‘gene’ just isn’t there. You know what I’m talking about. This is such a time. Not much to say. In terms of song writing, I’m not writing much either, instead I’m learning new melodies. I don’t want to write more songs in the same way

Welcome back. You belong here. In the book “Working with Emotional Intelligence” it says that an emotionally intelligent person (I love that term) has three things: 1. EMOTIONAL AWARENESS: The recognition of how our emotions affect our performance, and the ability to guide our values to guide decision making. This is crucial for me. On