Ragamuffin Soul

We were rushed leaving the house. I got the times wrong for my flight to Dallas. Like I mixed up the AM and the PM. Scramble…Rush…Scream…Pack…Kids…Cry… It was one of those scenes. I didn’t even have time to put socks on. Just get in the car and go. By the time I got to the [...]

So I call Heather from the MARTA Dunwoody Station with the unfortunate news that I missed my bus by 2 minutes. I can barely hear her because Sohaila is WHALING in the background. Me – “What the crap? What’s her deal?” H – “She fell and split her chin open” Me – “Oh. Dang. Um. [...]

OK. So Recent Comments are gone to the right (you may have to empty your cache to see the changes) and Soul Essentials are in. With the rapidly growing readership base around here I wanted people to be able to get to the good stuff first. So I organized and cleaned up a bit. A [...]

Easter. So much going on. So much to do. I was leading worship today yet couldn’t take the executive producer hat off so I was thinking about tons. Cut this song? Redo lights there? Pull the painting? Have Jeff do the invitation? Blah Blah Blah Blah. I was exhausted. We picked a fairly high energy [...]

There is this myth in church world. Or “the Real World” for that matter. That if you have an “artists” flare, or a large chunk of your DNA is creative in nature, you have this “LID” that you will automatically hit in your leadership capacity. I have spent the majority of my ministerial career with [...]

You know what I’m talking about. The one where you can’t quite catch your breath and your nostrils are flared like Kong himself. I had a HARD day. Real hard. I was not sure why. Nothing sucked. Things went pretty well. I just had a yearning. Around 4 o’clock I asked God what it was. [...]

To achieve my creative/blogging/service programming zen on a daily basis, I must have tools. These my fellow ragamuffins… Are those tools… TOOL BOX 15″ Macbook Pro. 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo GLOSSY Screen 2 GB 667 MHz SDRAM 160 GB Hard Drive WD Passport 160 GB Belkin Sling Bag TOOLS (online) iGoogle – This is [...]

Next question. What is it you do? My own mother does not even know what I do. And quite honestly, I think the answer to this question is going to continue developing the longer I am here, and the longer Jeff has to see me work in my strengths. What does that mean? That I [...]

So I have put this question off long enough. “Carlos, now where is it that you work?” I work at like 4 places at once. But really one place. I know. It’s confusing. So I start this week long series… Welcome To Atlanta Where the Playas Play. I figure I don’t have a shot of [...]

So I joined this gym called The Forum Athletic Club in Buckhead. Almost everyone I talk to tells me that is where the “celebrities” work out. So obviously, I joined for some good blogging material. And Ragamuffins, tonight did not let us down. I walked into the gym around 8:45 pm and scanned my little [...]