DS Mojo???

There are some interesting developments in the Cox-Johnson world, and in my ministry of late. My son is now an upperclassman, having begun his junior year today; my daughter did not begin school today since she graduated from high school, but will be taking one class at a community college up the road; the biggest development in her life is Ben, a boyfriend whom she met on the first night that her brother and I forced her to go out and have some fun at a local coffeehouse...; our two kittens are driving ol' Maggie-cat crazy,and us too sometimes; I am actively making my living room into a 1950s leave-it-to-beaver type space without me having to wear high heels and pearls

And, as I told Bob Farr, our conference's director of congregational excellence, with whom I had lunch yesterday, I seem to be getting my ds mojo on finally (although I have just researched the word "mojo" and I am kinda thinkin' I better find another word...:-)). That old mojo has erupted or whatever it is that it does every once in a while over the last couple of years, but it has me in a very good place---I met with the student pastors today; I've been going out to lunch off and on the last two months with some of the pastors with whom I have not checked in lately; I have all dates and pastor meeting dates planned; I have an agenda worked up for our district roundtable (the district council) for Sunday, and I think I am feeling confident in a way that I have not felt to this point.

For me, I think a lot of it comes from this rootedness emphasis that is the backdrop for everything else we are doing in the district this year...trying to ask pastors and lay leader-types to pay attention to their own spiritual rootedness (my metaphor fails). But you know what I mean.

I think it's time to turn my face toward all things emergent again---I may be ready.