One Step at a Time

I often obsess over the fact that I do not feel I have accomplished what God set me on Earth to do. I lay awake at night trying to figure out how he expects me to make my purpose a reality. I am overwhelmed by the insignificance of me and vastness of his hope in me. Then just as I begin to forget who he is, he reminds me who I am. He sends a wonderful Italian priest turned farmer to teach me that my purpose is not found in some final accomplishment, but rather in the singular, beautiful moments that happen along the Journey. He sends Geoffrey Canada (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMZb-9EKbbY) to remind me that impact is created one block at a time. He sends my wife to tell me that my Son has taken his first wobbly steps. Only to fall down and rise again to take a few more. In the end maybe that is all God is asking of me. To live my life one step at a time.

Learning to lead

Learning to lead is learning to take risks. It is fearlessly opening your heart and soul to a world eager to crush then criticize. It is stepping into embarrassing moment after embarrassing moment until those moments no longer embarrass you. It is asking yourself which holds more value; The fight to keep your pride or the cause for which you fight. This I learned on a car ride to Ana Millers.