To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD

In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.

To dream alone is fantasy if it doesn't move the heart to act.

Grace. Loss. Fortune. Hardship. Victory. Sometimes the worst seat is best seat in the house and it comes as a result of leading.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.