So I saw this quote from @rickpino (which is awesome btw) that is absolutely relevant for current leaders in any capacity. I then was reading an email of a prophecy someone sent me and the spelling was wrong on a lot of words. I was distracted because I (sarcasm intended) need excellence like water. This is not a good thing. It gets in the way. I digress...This prophecy or God download was totally rad and relevant but it made me think “How does God, who is a Creator of the universe, who exudes ultimate excellence in all we see and experience on this planet and see in the universe, gift us with the freedom to maybe mess up what he gave us?” I have trouble letting my kid color something without me grabbing the marker out of his hand and “make it pretty”. I have this wire in my brain that says it has to be excellent. What is crazier is that we WILL mess it up. We will mess it up super bad. We will mess up relationships. We will mess up our money. We will mess up his creation. Hello? We will mess up ministry. OMG. Yet he trusts us. Loves us. Calls us. He knows exactly what mistakes we will make before we make them, yet he still gives us a calling and a purpose. He doesn’t want our perfection but our surrender because our release is our success. Jesus is the ULTIMATE LEADER (insert reverb) who allows us to go slow so that we can sprint with absolute confidence believing excellence lives in us. And...if we are true leaders than we are going to offer that same trust, patience and belief in someone who WILL mess it up but their surrender will lead to another hero in the endeavor they are called to! What???? #heromaker #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #rickpinoworship (at Hampton, Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAedSjPDqHy/?igshid=1l6oet2mmu9tb