Potential

Do you have it?

Yes.

Do you know you have it?

Maybe.  Maybe Not.

One of the things that burdens me the most is watching people with tremendous potential squander it or just stay stagnant.  Maybe they don’t realize their potential, maybe they’ve wasted their potential, maybe someone told them they didn’t have any potential…

All of us have potential.  God has given us unique talents, abilities and gifts and placed a passion in your heart that you may have yet to discover.  Potential.

Oftentimes we live at Point A while our Vision (our potential) is at Point B.  We just have no idea how to get there or we’re scared to take a step in that direction because of fear or failure.

I see so much opportunity for you.  I see what God wants to accomplish through you.  I see the uniquenesses that you have and I want to scream “go after it”!

What’s your potential?  Are you living it?  What’s at Point B and what do you need to do to get there?

Go after it!

A mentor once told me:

“Just be You”

Hmmmm….

I wonder who am I , really?

What makes me, me?

Where have I buried me?

What am I buried under?

Where do I start digging?

Ever ask yourself these questions?

I love today’s post from Anne.  This is a subject that she and I easily connect on and could talk for hours about.  In the short time that she has been on staff with us I have already witnessed her passion for partnership in ministry!

pantyhose and elevators and my own skin. those are three things i’m uncomfortable in. (oh, wow. that rhymed!)

why the pantyhose? should be obvious.

elevators? not a fan of getting stuck in a big metal box.

my own skin?

it has to do with my heart and my brain and my aspirations and dreams.

=ministry is a fairly male-dominated game. and that’s cool. drill it down even more, when you have a heart for encouraging and equipping and dreaming with other pastors, well…as a girl, that can be tough to do. as a 20-something year old girl, perhaps even tougher.

most male leaders i know aren’t playing any kind of chauvinistic or age-hatin’ cards. so it’s not an issue of disrespect that i feel like i’m up against. there are just differences in guy leadership and girl leadership. the ways god has gifted us and crafted us.

most (but not all) women in ministry feel led to work in children’s ministry, education, women’s ministry…but i don’t. i know my calling…and it is working with pastors.

most of whom are men.

this is not a women-in-ministry debate. i just know that sometimes, i have a hard time wondering how it will all work out in the end. how does this look in my daily life? in my job? in the world…?? writing a book is pretty universal. and that’s a good start…but i know there’s more…