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I’m learning what it means to let go. It’s not fun. It seems passive and non-leader like. It doesn’t make sense when the moments come for me to exert my opinion, idea, or brilliance, for me to instead shut my mouth and let go.

But that’s what I am supposed to do. My opinions, ideas, and brilliance are only that to me. To others, they may be bias, brain farts, or stupidity.

George Washington wanted to be a general in the British army real bad. When the time came for him to get what he had aspired to all his life, he instead gave up that power and gave it over to civilian leadership. The same leadership that would later dub him President of the United States.

Maybe letting go is a good thing.

It might cause a few losses in the interim, but I’m trusting that the faith substituted in the absence of exertion will prove greater return in the long run.

Not because I want to be President, but because I want to be more like Christ.

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