more to Gethsemane
A few weeks ago I sat in a room filled with other pastors. The guest speaker begins with an anecdote about a leadership coach observing how so many clients weep in their sessions - more than ever before. I’m hooked. The landscape for leaders is shifting, and when you’re a part of the landscape rather than viewing it from a distance, it can be hard to know why it’s shifting. Harder still is knowing how to respond. But rather than exegeting the landscape, our speaker turns our attention toward the inner life. So important. Operating from a place of being beloved. Living out of my full self. Understanding that God often does his best work in the dark. Then a second session inviting participation in the kingdom of God, and observing how that work often emerges in the most mundane, unexpected and even exhaustive moments of leadership. A vital reminder. A question emerges from the floor seeking insight whether there’s a distinction between exhaustion and complete burnout. The speak...
