Leaders

Preface:
This is just a story I want to preserve for our children in my journal, because I believe it speaks volumes about the character of their father - who he is and where he is going. This happened about a year ago.

Charles the Leader:
Once in a spiritual development class, the teacher was discussing leadership. He gave the scenario of a group of pioneers traveling West. They have been traveling together for some time and as they travel they begin to become more organized. At some point they decide to choose a leader. The teacher posed this question, "Imagine that you as a class are those pioneers, how do you choose your leader." The class discussed many options, but the overall conclusion was that a leader would have been developing as they traveled. In other words, there would be one person in the group that would begin to stand out from the rest - the obvious leader of the group - the one people would have come to trust, to depend on, to turn to in any situation. As the discussion continued the teacher asked, "who then would be your leader?" When Charles looked around to think of who to choose he found the entire class pointing at him.