Leadership is difficult to define, easy to identify when seen. Leaders lead by example, thus leadership occurs in a specific moment, a specific circumstance. When moment after moment, in those moments when life is uncertain and leadership is needed, a person seizes the moment and fills it with goodness and strength, leadership happens.
Leaders realize that every moment of life is a precious gift. They do everything they can to infuse that truth into all of life. There are many distractions in this world, things that move us away from our profound potential to do good and to live in God’s will so we can live out God’s will. These distractions are temporary–they are time-limited, occurring right now in a specific part of life, right here in a specific place. Why do we allow such distractions to define life?
Leaders have a vision that is bigger than the present moment and place. Leaders know that right now in this moment in this place, they can change the world.
–Bob Young
I have no idea what’s going to happen, or if my specific plans are going to come out the way I envision them, but I am completely confident that if we get people together and keep service to the Lord and to our neighbors at the center of our thinking, that He will make something wonderful come out of our efforts, one way or another. My personal ego has some very specific ideas of what the Lord ought to do with our efforts, but I know my God is wiser than me [sic], and thinks bigger than I ever could, and sees the long-term big picture, and so I’m ready to find out what it is He will make of all our plans and efforts.
–Mac Frazier