The journey that led to this book actually began 25 years ago when I started journaling on a regular basis. My journals have been notebooks of thoughts, schedules, questions, and sometimes garbage which needed to be dumped somewhere. I think that through the years my journals have served as my personal "pschiatrist's couch." It's my desire to analyze 40 plus years in the pastoral ministry from the perspective of God changing me. Deeper than simply "lessons I've learned," I guess I would share in light of "things I wish I would have known" - "things I wish I would have had to courage to say or...