Weak Trees
I have a theory about the interaction between Christian leadership and weakness. I'll spare you the clever "connect the dots" literary exercise and just tell you what it is up front so you can decide if you want to read on. My theory is that leaders tend to be weakest after they expend energy in a successful leadership campaign. After they bear fruit as leaders, they are the most susceptible to falling into sin of some kind. Therefore what we do with our "down-time" is of critical importance. I've learned over the past several years and from several mentors of mine to take spiritual cues from nature. I'm not certain if this completely passes muster 100% of the time, but more often than not I've found that the physical realm informs the spiritual. The spiritual realm and physical realm run in parallel lines by design because God wants to be known, and he wants us to know ourselves. So the physical world is a training ground and if we pay atte...