Read Articles Written by Rev. Sandy Jones Where Does Motivation Come From? Where does your motivation come from? Are you motivated by people and events outside of yourself? Or do you find your motivation from within, perhaps from your beliefs and views of life, or perhaps from something deeper within you? Read More... What is Your Soul's Intention? When we think about this word, intention, what comes to mind?  Setting goals?   Creating something?  Putting a message out into the universe so that it will return in a manifested form?  That sounds about right.  But, what are intentions anyway?  And more to the point, what are your intentions? Read More... What is Soul Faith? Faith: Belief without proof, reliance, confidence.  Belief in God.  Loyalty, fidelity to an agreement or promise.  A religious creed.  The dictionary definition sums this up well.  It is what our minds understand the definition of faith to be.  But how easy is it to have faith?   Read More... Compassionate Self-Care In this world, we are busy.  We get up, get the kids off to school, we get ready for work, we drive through traffic, we get to the office and step into the business world and we work hard.  At the end of the day, we come home, take care of everyone’s needs, make dinner and eventually collapse in a heap, exhausted.  Does this sound like your experience?   Read More... Great Expectations I am not referring to a place you get a hair cut or the movie, but rather the vision we place upon a desired outcome. Have you ever gone shopping for a particular something, where you have a vision firmly planted in your mind of what it looks like, feels like or even tastes like?  And what happens next?  Well, it’s been my experience that most of the time, I never find it.  How about you? Read More... Walking Through the Wall of Fear When you think about fear what comes to mind?  Jumping out of the way of a train?   Walking down a dark alley at night or a very bumpy ride in an airplane?  What about the kind of fear that stops you from picking up the phone to call about that job in the paper?  Or the fear of stepping out of your comfort zone and trying something new? Read More... How Does You Mental Garden Grow? For many of us, we get lost in the quagmire of life, being bumped around and feeling victimized at times.  We think we have no control, no power and no peace.  We think we are rushed.  We think we are stressed.   Energy follows thought therefore we create what we experience with our every thought. Read More...