To Be A Leader

TO be a leader is to be VULNARABLE
- to meet the disapproving stares of others with the joy and certainty of God's infinite love;

TO be a leader is to be IMPERFECT
- to enjoy the enriching process of a new challenge with the hope and confidence of the Master;

TO be a leader is to be TRUSTING
- to disregard dire projections of gloom for the joy and creativity of our Creator;

TO be a leader is to be HONEST
- to own our sinfulness with the sincerity and authenticity of the Spirit;

TO be a leader is to be UNIQUE
- to accept the wonderful gift of self, in the knowledge and understanding of community;

TO be a leader is to be FREE
- to welcome recurring waves of change with the awe and wonder of a child;

TO be a leader is to be EMPOWERING
- to share the exhilarating power of information in the establishiment of inter-connectedness;

TO be a leader is to be HUMBLE
- to give the inestimable gift of flexibility with the grace and forgivenes of God;

TO be a leader is to be a WHOLE
- to know the startling reality that I am central, yet peripheral, in God's plan for the world;

TO be a leader is to be WEAK
- to understand that I can rest in the hollow of God's hand only in the total yielding and complete trusting of my child's heart.

& By Dee Bernharadt