Leadership Lab Learnings

Last night, I started teaching our fall semester Leadership Lab class. I can't think of a better way to spend a Tuesday evening than with a group of emerging and growing leaders who are pursuing God. During our orientation night, I asked each person to fill out an information page for me so I could get to know them a bit more. At the end of the class, I collected them and brought them back to the office with me this morning. Wow! Remember the movie, A Beautiful Mind? Well words and phrases just lit up on the pages as I read over them; each one highlighting how God has so gifted our church through these people and revealing hearts that are hungry to know God in more intimate and purposeful ways. I am continually amazed by people and the work of God in their lives. Reading through these sheets, I learned about these people's gifts and passions, what they want to learn, what character qualities they are eager to develop, and what leadership skills they want to hone. I love how God has a unique plan for each of us and the way He works His purposes out in each of our lives is so amazing. It is beyond us. In the next couple of months, I will be a grandmother. That looks weird when I read that. Anyway, the older I get, the more I don't know what I really thought I knew. I do know this. God is as multi-faceted as there are people on the planet. The plans He has for me are not even close to the plans He has for you. The journey He is taking me on is completely different from the one you are taking with Him. I love that I can turn to Him wherever I might find myself on that journey and He is there. And He is right there for each of us; wherever we are. I don't know what God has in store for the people who have stepped out to participate in this group. But I do know that it will be amazing. Just like Him.