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Evangelical Lutheran Church in AmericaDan Carlson is currently serving as Police Chief for the City of Eden Prairie Minnesota. He has announced his retirement from police service, effective January 2007, to pursue a second career in the ministry. His 25 year career in law enforcement and his passion for the concept of spiritual fitness training have led him to found Public Safety Ministries Inc. PSMInc is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is “Promoting Spiritual Fitness in the Public Safety Professions”.
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Yes, at some point I’ll need to spend some time raising money for the ministry, but this morning I had a great opportunity and a great experience raising something more important, awareness. The mission of Public Safety Ministries is To Promote Spiritual Fitness in the Public Safety Professions. There are three basic components to promoting spiritual fitness: awareness, assessment and application. I’ve done a little of all three within the professions but one of the things I enjoy most about this ministry is sharing the story with those outside of the professions. I had the opportunity to do that this morning with the men of Faith Lutheran Church in Waconia MN. I’m guessing there were about 30 of us gathered at Nancy’s Landing in a beautiful location on Lake Waconia. We shared coffee, breakfast and several stories. I went to high school with Pastor Dale Peterson who invited me to the event. I had the opportunity to share my story, the story of Public Safety Ministries and most importantly, the story of the importance of spiritual fitness in the public safety professions. Thanks for the opportunity guys and I hope I can come back and enjoy tour company again in the future. This website is an outreach project of Public Safety Ministries. Is is intended to be an active and ever changing site that is updated on a daily basis. It utilizes a weblog format that encourages response to postings and other information shared. Just like with physical fitness, the pursuit of spiritual fitness requires regular participation in a personalized exercise program . The objective of this site is to create a virtual spiritual fitness center or a gym for the soul. We’re hoping that you visit the gym regularly and can find some exercises that fit your personal spiritual fitness needs. Yesterday Father Tim, a friend and adviser, gave me the following story adapted from “A House with Four Rooms” by Rumer Godden. A house with four rooms Imagine a house with four rooms: One room is a fully equipped kitchen, stocked with every kind of delicious food and wine. Another room is a quiet library, furnished with comfortable chairs and lined with shelves of the best books written. A third room is a work room or studio. It houses a work shop for carpentry, a garage for automotive maintenance, or a studio for painting, pottery or sculpting. The forth room is a high tech media room, with the latest in audio-video hardware and a state of the art computer set-up. You become so interested in one of the rooms that it becomes the room you live in: you become so immersed in cooking that you never avail yourself of the treasures of the library; or you become so engrossed with all the toys in the media room that you never sit down and enjoy dinner with you family; or you become so immersed in projects and gadgetry that you forget how to connect with other human beings. Our lives are houses with many rooms. Yet we tend to live in only one room: whatever room we find most comfortable and safe, whatever room is most fun and satisfying, whatever room is least stressful and demanding. There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone of us is a house with four rooms – a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual room. And most of us tend to live most of the time in one of those rooms. Unless less we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired out, we are incomplete. There are lots of stories out there that hit on the mission of Public Safety Ministries. As I spread the message, people see the Spiritual Fitness idea and share it with me. One of my goals with this website is pass those sightings along to others. So enjoy and feel free to contact me with your Spiritual Fitness sightings and I’d be happy to pass them on |
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