10 Things I’ve Learned Since Becoming Children’s Director – Number 4
Leadership Hurts!
I have always had a tremendous respect for leaders and what they have to go through, especially growing up in church and watching people come and go, but I never fully understood it.
Leadership hurts sometimes. It hurts because it’s hard not to take it personally when someone gets mad, has to leave, or just quits. It’s hard not to take it personally when people say things out of frustration and anger. That’s just life in general, no one likes to be talked about, make people mad or feel abandoned.
The harder part of leadership for me, and the greater hurt that I have felt, had less to do with people hurting me, but the pain I felt as I realized some of my actions had hurt others. The truth is I am far from perfect. I have done a lot wrong in the last year and have a pretty good idea I will do a lot wrong in the years to come. I know that the mistakes I’ve made, have been mistakes that came from a good heart. My motives and intentions were pure, but my methods were not always the best. Regardless of how pure my intentions were, hurt is hurt and realizing that you have hurt someone God has entrusted you to oversee is painful. That hurts far more than the words of someone had has become offended for no apparent reason.
I don’t know that this part of leadership will ever change. I just have a greater understanding of it now.
