Song: Stronger by Hillsong Live (by Reuben Morgan and Ben Fielding) - this was one of our worship songs from church this weekend. I had never heard it, but its truth and beauty captured me.
Last weekend my friend James and I had an opportunity to go backpacking at the Suwannee River State Park. That's where this picture came from. We spent Friday night through Sunday morning there. We just hung out on Saturday. It was a great day. We read the Bible, talked, prayed some, meditated, journaled, relaxed. Did you know that there is enough wind current from a sweat bee's wings to make things on the ground move? I don't remember ever observing that before!
"I'm no leader." That statement doesn't seem to fit with what I've put on my own shoulders. I'm not sure what I've been taught all of these years, but I've distilled it down to a bunch of rules that I need to live by that are impossible to meet. One of them is that I have to be a leader. Where? At home and church are where I think I put on the most weight on myself about leadership.
I don't debate that I need rules. The Bible says that one of the marks of one who knows God is that they follow his commandments (just one verse among many for this is 1 John 2:3). But over this weekend I did arrive at something important in the strategy of "leading" my family, wherever that may be in the moment: I am not the leader, I am the first follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.
