Making up for lost time V 2.0

      Over the past couple of weeks there seems to have been a pattern that has emerged.  Really, what I need to be doing is finding out how to best situate myself to serve others and lead based off of gospel principles.  We had a speaker come and talk on divine-centered leadership, or leading the way that Savior led.  When it comes to learning how to be divinely centered, you need to first know how to center yourself divinely.  The only way to become centered is through your own personal study and prayer and revelation.  To become centered and lead as Christ did you must try to have the same perception as Christ, and use his live as a road map of sorts.

     A divine centered leader has several attributes that seem to define them:

• They are often in the right place at the right time (usually because they put themselves there)
• Always see the potential in others
• Always prayerful, in any context (praying for the needs of themselves and others, not the wants)
• The divine centered leader is not competitive, but is still firm in their morals
• Is full of love (especially towards those whom it may seem hard to love)
• Values and necessitates obedience.
• Provides for others what they cannot provide for themselves.

     I know that I can work on these attributes in all aspects of my life.  To be a divinely centered leader you do not have to be a church leader or only do so in churchy settings, but you must lead in the home, in work, the community, and especially be divinely centered towards those who don't seem to like you, or even those who you may not have the warmest feelings toward.  The easiest way to love people and to serve and lead them is to really get to know them.  That is why I focus on listening to people and their stories, I always search to know what it is that makes them tick and through my understanding of them know how to respond to their individual situations.

It's not What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) but more like What Would Jesus Have Me Do (WWJHMD).  I don't think that will look as good on a bumper sticker though...