Reflection for January 17

Leadership
Leadership involves more than representation. Former Yale football coach Herman Hickman once said that he felt it was his job to keep the Yale alumni “sullen but not mutinous.” Leadership is not a matter of simply reflecting other people’s opinions and so keeping them happy but of learning, educating, informing, and persuading others.... Leadership involves working to realize a vision of what the parish could be but is not. It involves change.... Leadership is a matter also of prayer and Bible study. [Christopher L. Webber, Vestry Handbook]