To Parents of College Students: How are you Encouraging Independence?
How independent is your college student? If I asked you to give me number from 1-10, with 1 being “As a parent, I have to be involved almost all the time in order for my student to make a good decision,” and 10 being “I believe he or she is capable of making good decisions without my…
Why Strategic Planning is Important
While it may seem an obvious statement, strategic planning is an incredibly important part of leading teams and long term projects. It’s an item, I’ve observed, that many organizations seem to treat almost as an afterthought. A team develops a rationale in order to submit a budget and believe that to be planning. To a…
The Gift of Silence and Solitude – Rachel James
The Spiritual Rhythms retreat was such an amazing experience for me. Prior to the retreat, I had been desiring to practice more spiritual disciplines but did not understand how to implement some of them into my life. The disciplines of silence and solitude often get overlooked in many of our hurried lives today. We are…
