This is your last-minute reminder. Your "clock has struck midnight" moment. Your calm before the storm.
I am not good at arguments. I tend to lose just about every argument I get into (especially with my wife).
"Welcome to Middle School". This was the subject line of an email I recently received. The school my oldest will attend next year sent it. The email might as well have screamed...
As anyone in leadership will tell you, serving others can be exhausting. The work is rarely perceived as being done, let alone actually being finished. Yet that is what leadership is, serving others by pouring yourself out.
In these situations, there is something we can reach out to for help. This tool is one anyone has available to them. Everyone can provide it for others, no matter where they are or who they are. What is it? An outside perspective. Feedback. Observations from a distance. When we are in the midst of a problem (or jungle of them) it can be hard for us to see a solution. Things are complex, complicated, and convoluted. Complexity breeds complication. The more I have to handle, deal with, or get done the harder things are. Simplicity brings clarity.
The common response, to any disapproving nod or statement, is "Don't judge me". The best part about this statement is it's rooted in something Jesus said, "Judge not"...(Matthew 7:1). So are we really not supposed to judge anything or anyone ever?
Preacher on the Run... 