Plentiful. Embodied. Resourced from the deep within.

This audio commentary episode is the most fun I’ve had yet. In this edition, I have collected and annotated songs that speak to our power, our dreams, and the redemptive work before us to do. I also, unsuspectingly, speak a lot about the value and power of relationships as we move forward and create a new world.

As I have emerged from the dark and begun reconstruction myself, this Wellspring Commentary is a good time. You can think of this one as me essentially saying: To me, my millennials.

So much love, heart, and laughter in this one.

Melvyn 🫶🏿

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In this short Musing episode, I share from my heart a summons to all those who have had to conceal, abandon, and disown parts of who you are.

Happy Pride!

Melvyn 🌈

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In this deeply personal episode, I narrate the journey to my coming out and the dark, rocky terrain I had to navigate to make it to the other side. I think this episode has got a bit for everybody. So let me tell it in my own words the price I had to pay to live in the light.

In this one, we cover the Second Adolescence queer people typically have to live through, why our identities (and your, too) are so important, and what the treatment of queer youth means for the family system.

Let my life be an example of how even the darkest moments can produce the most brilliant life.

Dive in.

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Wellspring Playlist Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/v-wellspring/pl.u-aZb00D7tPyBdPW

Wellspring Playlist Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1Cw3rgp0uVMUyAe6e9ikQf?si=bKjLHJ6pSxOEEiJC7cSsBA&pi=u-jcAD3G3zQq-i

Melvyn ⛲️

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In this Musing episode, I discuss the near-daily opportunity we get to practice receiving and experiencing the things we most desire.

In it, I also share a few additional ways we’ve been given indicators of where we’re headed as well as provide a playful analogy of how we delay our greatest experiences.

Give it a listen!

Melvyn 🚿

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In this episode, I detail through my experience growing and being active in church and various religious groups, how subtle patterns of abuse, hate, and control have infiltrated and thrived in Christian churches. I highlight the numerous ways this happens, who it often happens to, and what we might do to get our personal Christian faith back on track so we may see God.

Honorable mention to the ways Queer people are kept close so they can receive intimate spiritual harm while being exploited.

Buckle up, this one is a doozy, but it’s got a whooole lot of heart. All else is folly.

Melvyn ⛪

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In this Musing, I share what we can learn from bell towers about consistency, service, and the beauty of our souls. Please receive this encouragement to not only begin again but at a pace you actually like.

Give it a listen.

Melvyn 🔔

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In this episode, we explore 7 indicators of the state of our American empire, what this means for us, and the posture we should take as we move forward. Despite all that’s happening out in the world, this episode is a reminder to bring it back to what’s ours specifically to discover and to dedicate ourselves to.

Give it a listen!

Melvyn 🌐

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In this Musing episode, I share some thoughts about process and how our commitment to processes that support our bodies enables us to function optimally and embody all we’ve covered so far.

Give this musing a listen and take a look at your own process and adjust as you see fit.

Melvyn ⚙️

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In this episode, we discuss how our imaginations are the chief creative power we have available to us to reconstruct our lives. We cover the “lowdown” on imagination, the science of it, exercised to strengthen and direct our imaginations toward the lives we want to lead and why we struggle with our imagination and creativity in the first place.

After all the internal reconstructive work we have undergone these last few weeks and months, we finally have a tool that takes all of that work and directs it both inwardly and outwardly.

This is powerful constructive work we’re doing and I invite you to dive into the episode.

Melvyn

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In this Musing episode, I discuss an alternative view of our emotions and how they can assist us on our way to our highest aims. As always, I invite you to navigate your emotions with gentleness and curiosity.

Explore this perspective and muse with me about our emotions.

Melvyn 🚸

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