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How to have a truly happy new year.

For the first time in years, I don’t remember my New Year’s resolution from January. Usually, I write it down in my journal or on a note I stick to my mirror. There’s been many of those dog-eared sticky notes from years past. The year of contentment. Speaking life. We passed pancakes across the breakfast table on January 1st this year. “What do you want from 2018?” I can’t remember my answer. I know what I didn’t want though. I didn’t want to walk into her office and share the parts of my life I’m inclined to hide. I didn’t want to Facetime her the day after she delivered her baby that never breathed. I didn’t want to spend four months wondering how I’d walk into her house on Christmas day and see her empty chair. I didn’t want to go on another first date that led nowhere. We sit across from each other in a little coffee shop in Colorado, picking at a charcuterie board. “When I think about all of the things I have left to go through,” her voice cracks....
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Symbiosis

Re-posting: I have been trying to live life to the fullest over here, trying to figure out where God is bringing me next. Dropping last year's post here.

On Monday, I walk through the doors of a high school, heels tapping against the tiled hallway. I introduce myself to a group of students, and tell them how important it is to get involved and to be leaders.

It’s all mechanical. The spiel on leadership. An over-used song lyric.

I’ve heard it myself a million times, so I repeat it to them. Like repeating an echo.

I wonder why no one ever told me why it is good to be a follower. A strong follower. A steadfast follower. A determined follower.

Because leadership requires a symbiotic relationship.

I sit in a session called Stand Up Confidently and Be Heard.

But there are no sessions called Sit Back Confidently and Submit.

Submit with a will. Submit with a passion. Submit with determination.

Where would Churchill be without submissive followers? Where would Queen Victoria or Abraham Lincoln be?

To be someone who makes it in a history book is grand.

And…to be someone who makes someone else be in a history book. That is magnificent.

On Monday, I tell a group of high school students about the importance of leadership. They all stare at me silently and my voice wavers. But, I’ve been given this position of leadership, so I push through it.

But there are times when it is not my place to lead.

Like the girl in the group of high school students, who smiles and nods as I talk. She smiles and nods while others whisper and distract.

She is a strong follower. A follower with convictions. A follower who makes my job easier. A follower who is secure and confident in her role.

A leader among her peers.

Symbiosis.

Like Jesus.

“For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.” (Jesus in John 6:38)

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