As I examine my role as supervisor to pastors and as pastor to pastoral families, I am driven to get my Christian work done often at the expense of experiencing the life giving force of Christian living. I embark upon this experience out of a need for personal and professional refreshment and renewal. Therefore, I am choosing to focus on the area of Spiritual Practices; and how they may become life rather than elements added to an already busy life. Much of my Christian work is in a context that is culturally, ethnically and racially different from my own. As such, I fear that I tend to over function in order to cross the bearers that exist in such settings. What I would like to do is deconstruct my current patterns and replace them with sustainable life giving disciplines. I currently practice scripture reading, journaling, prayer, meditation and acts of kindness. However, I have destructive patterns that hamper the positive influence of my spiritual disciplines. My lack of proper rest, relaxation, diet and exercise I sense are signs of a restlessness that I have acquired over the years as one who over functions.