Children and Leadership

My children picked these on this week and had no idea that these are what carrotts looked like (I have been in suberbia to long).

We should go off and live off the land - NO WAY! My idea of living off the land is picking up dropped food and eating it or cold In & Out.

I love kids and all that they do they make me realize who I am and where I reall Stand!


I found this info off of another blog

Reading from Erwin McManus’ Seizing Your Divine Moment this morning. He has some GREAT stuff to say about…

Influence:

“We understand the difference between authority and influence when we watch our children grow up. What your children act like when they’re under your authority is very different from who they become as a result of your influence. Many parents become broken-hearted when they realize that their influence on their children is at best minimal, at worst inconsequential, compared to the influence of others in their lives. I am convinced that great parenting is all about influence. It is more about shaping values than it is setting boundaries.“
“Influence is rooted in character - who we are and who we are becoming. Influence transfers best and moves most quickly whenever respect and trust are present.”
“There may be no greater reward than to experience the life change of another human being through the investment of your influence. But to have this kind of influence, you have to let people come close.“
“If you want to increase your influence, risk bringing people up close.”
Risk:

“The most important decisions of our lives will require us to forsake invisibility and risk becoming visible.”
“The greatest opportunities require the highest risk.”
“Women and men who seize divine moments embrace the inherent dangers that come with them. Divine moments oftentimes require us to put our own well-being aside for the well-being of others, to relinquish our safe places for the sake of others. We can touch only those within our reach and can change only the world in which we live, but we can do that much. It requires us to move from the isolation of our invisibility to the dangers of visibility if we are going to make the invisible visible. That’s the amazing thing about seizing divine moments. We choose to no longer be invisible, to take the risk of letting others see us, and so when we become visible, the invisible presence of God becomes visible.”
“Risk that God respects is fueled by a passion for His purpose and a willingness to subjugate our lives to His mission. Prayer moves from God, what is your will for my life? to God, what is your will, and how can I give my life to fulfill it?“
“There comes a time when you just gotta get up, get out from under the shade, pull your team together, and go to the point of no return. To the best of my understanding, faith is trusting God enough to obey what He has said, and hope is having the confidence that God will do everything He has promised. One pushes you; the other pulls you. They lead you into the wonder of experiencing divine moments. But without question, in between faith and hope, there is risk.”