Everyone should consider themself a leader in some capacity. We have such a narrow idea of “Leader” in this capitalistic hellscape, but everyone has something to offer, some way to serve. My kids are leaders at times, sometimes I am, sometimes my husband is. It should be like that; we all have something deeply needed to offer one another if only we’re humble enough to accept the directions of the person giving them. Everyone everyone everyone is a leader, even if only for a split second, a minute, or a week.
a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 11:6
Christian leadership is about infinite outpouring, not domination or control. The stronger animals are paired with the weaker animals in Isaiah 11:6 to show us that reversal of the social order is the point. I hope to be an embodied leader; someone who knows her own power and role in a situation, and who uses it to empower others. As a White, cis, Christian woman in the Imperialistic States of America, there’s a lot that’s been privileged to me, and a lot that I hope to throw away in order to live peaceably with others. In no particular order:
- Heteronormativity
- Patriarchy
- White Supremacy
- Christian Nationalism
- Military Industrial Complex
- Economic Privilege
- Empire-based worldview and culture
- Capitalism
- Domination systems
- Prison-Industrial Complex
So own your little bit of leadership. And interrogate the cultural conditioning that makes you think you’re not a leader. You matter.
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