As we get older, our responsibility grows. i knew that coming to college, getting married, having kids etc. What I never considered was the resposiblity I have in menotrship as a manager of booming adults. Those that work for me are fresh out of highschool in most cases and have no idea of what this thing called college and independence is going to do to them. At a Christian school, it is easy to think that all these kids have their lives in order, figured out, and ready for the next step. It is not until you find a way to their inner emotions that you realize they are like everyone else, scared to death about what is to come.
As a "father" figure and mentor in part to these young people, ironic coming from a 25 year old, I am blazingly aware of my influence on them. some of them I have influenced for the better, and some I have not. It pains me to think that i have lead any of them away from where they should be, and shame on me if I ever think that I am a the prodigal father when they come to enlightenment of their follies.
Pray for me as I work here and as I struggle to be a leader. Even as I am writing this and thinking about my children, i'm terrified of the example I must set for all of them. Only by the Grace of God will I complete it.
