See what turns a man’s head and know how he’s steering his heart.
What is Lovely, to you?
Lovely… a servant leader. (John 13:15)
Leadership theory has more books than the Library of Congress.
Even more than that are speeches and teachings on the matter.
If it was all written down the whole world itself couldn’t contain the volume.
I used to think, to be a good leader I needed to know all of it.
“Start with mystification and head toward explanation.”
Lovely laughed her Happiest laugh and skipped through the mist.
(She often knows a much better way.)
“It’s not that complicated and also not at all ordinary.”
Her Enthusiastic footprints spelled these words:
“As you follow, so you become.”
Shivers started on my wrists and went to my hair tips.
My mental stack of books went up like the 4th of July.
Pages came down like leaves dry and crunchy,
perfect for jumping in.
And I felt like jumping in.
Ain’t that just the way.
Turn left to go right.
Die now to live forever.
Follow good to lead best.
And so she does.
A supremely capable leader, she makes it her Ambition to follow the servant.
Willing submission of a supremely capable leader is perhaps the most glorious thing under the sun.
And so she is.
Pouty pleadings, heavy-willed “suggestions,” even reasonable ultimatums… she doesn’t deign to wield them.
Putting me at the helm of our heart, she trusts God to lead me; even when it seems certain I’m going to screw it up.
I am amazed at her faith. And my paper knowledge trembles in the breeze… thank God’s got me by the roots.
I dared ask for the highest honor on earth, according to me: Respect from a God fearing woman.
Truth dared me back.
Hallelujah.
Lovely… a lover of the One who Loves.
(who’s this Lovely? you’d better start at the beginning…)