It's time to go!

I'm barely ready!

We board in 30 minutes for our trip to Prague, and I feel like I’m barely present. I had many ideas of other posts I would have made leading up to the trip; yet, life…

But I’ll mention the words I’m floating in my head as I start this week of conference and reflection time:

• Friction - have we allowed our experiences, relationships, community, etc to become too frictionless? without friction are we not as kind, gentle, or compromising? how do we introduce more friction?

• Second-place - how does leadership development prepare us to NOT be the boss? could we provide assessments, processes, evaluations that would prevent heartache when someone thinks they are called to be the top leader but will never have the skills for it? what does a non-hierarchical leadership model really look like - in practical ways?

• Translation - what is gained by recognizing our role in translating? what happens to the translator in that process? for the recipient? how does privilege play a part?

• Calling - is there a better word to use when it’s related to profession versus a relationship with Divinity? what would it look like if we said passion instead? or purpose? or code?

Enough for now! More from the road.