Learning about Leading.

Sometimes people think living in another country is an adventure. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't.

Sometimes people think being in full time on a mission field is rewarding.
Sometimes it is. Sometimes it isn't.

If you are called to serve a community of people long term there will be times of much fruit and encouragement and also times of challenge and discouragement.

Our motivation can never only be people. It must be Christ.

In my husband I see a servant leader. Continually helping people behind the scenes as well as leading from the front.

In my husband I see a leader who stands up for injustice and will not let unfairness have any place.

In my husband I see a leader who speaks the truth in love. If someone in our care has done something wrong, he will tell them in a way that will rebuke but encourage them to go on, go on and be better.

In my husband I see a man who will stand up to encourage others during times when his own heart is discouraged. In fact I have seen him stand up and speak words of encouragement to the very ones who have done things to discourage him.

In my husband I see a man who goes on and serves not because people are watching.. Not because hundreds come back and say thank you. Some do. Some don't. But it's not about that. He leads and serves and serves and leads because in this season he believes this is what he is meant to do.

He has many gifts. He wont take them forward unless God clearly open the door. He wont push himself to a place so that people will hear him.

A patient man. A kind man. A gifted man. A genuinely humble man. A giving and generous man.

He would give away anything and everything. He holds no material thing tightly.

I've seen him give away things of great worth and I've seen him come home soaking wet without a t shirt having given it away to some one that was colder than he was.

A perfect man. No.

A great man. Yes.

I am so thankful he is my husband.

I am thankful I am learning about leading by watching him do it. 

I know the ONE who is leading you.
I know who holds your hand
I see Jesus in your walk and the ones you stop for
You stop for hopeless ones others walk past. You stop and you do something.

I know the One who is leading you
I hear Him in your songs
It's heavens words sang through you
Music that make  forgotten hearts know they have Someone to belong to.

I know the one who is leading you
I see Him in the way you lead us
With patience, giving, forgiveness and strength
He's part of you. You're part of Him. Both part of us.

So keep going. Keep leading. He'll carry you when you can't. He'll awaken the next song you should pen that will encourage your heart to still lead, still serve. Still serve. Still lead.

Josiah and our hero- Daddy.