Leadership

As the world changes, some things perhaps never change.

We look to others in times of need to navigate through life, it is the way of living, it is the nature of our existance.

Parents, teachers, managers, ministers, friends, neighbors, relatives and so many others play a role in who we are and what we shall become.

Through the years, we have seen the veil of these figures lifted and they are now filtered through a less than kind lens. We now find about flaws, faults, indiscretions, poor choices and less than as advertised skills and backgrounds.

We forgive knowing, perhaps grudgingly that no one is perfect, that we all make mistakes and

with God's grace and the kindness of others, we can all recover and have second chances.

For any leader,there are always tough questions that often have no good answers. But it seems we now think there is a right answer to every question or the right response to every inquiry. And as such many have mastered the art of spinning the response, or attacking the question. Sometimes one can evade the question entirely or respond in a nonsense manner hoping no one really cares or hears the response.

Perhaps we have come to expect too much of others,of those who might lead us. Perhaps we are wanting so badly to be lead we accept theses who simply paint a veneer that implies they are who we hope they will be.

Somehow in all of this we are diminshed, for we are not being lead, but fooled, often misdirected to another level of discussion to another place of false acceptance.

We once knew that "don't do as I do, but do as I say", had some merit, for inherent in this was

wisdom and experience tempered with forgiveness.

Each day, it is getting harder and hard to accept, to understand,to forgive when the start point for many leaders was never that of character or wisdom, or the true intent of really leading.