Why WellSpring?

“Above all else, guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life.” - Proverbs 4:23

In 2010 I left working full-time in a local church and decided to start a coaching practice. One of the first things to do was come up with a name and we landed on WellSpring. It was a pretty easy selection for us since Proverbs 4:23 was a passage of Scripture that has been a family verse for us. We commissioned calligrapher Timothy Botts in the mid 1990's to take that verse and turn it into a piece of art that has hung by our front door ever since. I like that these are the last words we see as we walk out the front door: Above all else, guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life. 

I've always been a student of the heart. Some of it is connected to being raised in a wild Pentecostal background where our hearts were the most important things. Then, during graduate school days I was encouraged to think critically and to bow at the altar of logic, reason and argument. It seemed like there was no place for the heart there.

Through the years, I discovered that there are two errors we can make: (1) to completely trust the heart and (2) to completely ignore the heart. That's why King Solomon's words in Proverbs 4 are such a guiding light for me and the work we do at WellSpring. We want to help people guard -- pay attention -- to their hearts, because everything flows from it. That's exactly what Jesus meant when he said "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks". In other words, our problem really isn't our words or our actions. Our problem is always in the heart and that's why we must be mindful of it. 

Our greatest honor at WellSpring Coaching & Training is providing coaching and training for individuals, couples and teams to help them guard, grow and give their hearts, because relationship matters.