It is the way the master trod: should not the servant tread it still?

(Just returned from Glacier National Park and from an incredible talk by Ranger)

Everyone breaks off into groups and I find an empty hallway to pray and reflect alone.
"Leadership is a lonely road." I have heard this statement over and over again but, it is in these times that I feel it the most. I skip around from city to city, team to team, and community to community. With each journey, I find myself often feeling like an onlooker or an outsider. One who is painfully attempting to break into preestablished rhythms with little success. Other times, there is nothing sweeter than blessings I receive through leadership and the belonging I experience with old friends and new.

I think of the way of my Creator and His promise that He, too, fully identifies with my journey.
He goes before me and He is my rear guard. He is good. I lean on that tonight.