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Sometimes SD – I feel as if I have a flip side of your experience. I will acknowledge that I have served with some doosies of leaders, and that they were not even liked by the flock they led, but for me we somehow found a way to manage even enjoy our experience together. Did I love their policies, practices and style – no – but I also felt like my contribution was a source of softening. Again I can’t answer why. On the other end I feel as if I have had many leaders that led with their hearts and not the handbook. They have inspired vision and so on. I often wish I could erase your experience for you, it breaks my heart when I think about it.
Thanks Mom3 — today, as I sat viewing the pictures of my weekend — a music performance at which we were invited to take a 3 week international tour, followed by a highly successful event for the community — which took me all day to help execute — and its Sunday. It’s strange — I sat there thankful for the bad leadership experiences I’ve had — in an unusual kind of way.
Those bad experiences eventually convinced me to see the world the way I now see it — on a new paradigm. To search for happiness in serving community (as I did with the event today) as well as sharing my musical talents with non-profits, and the community, as well as for-profit.
Would all this self-actualization have occurred if I hadn’t had leaders that provided me with such negative and repeated experiences? So negative that I was able to shoulder the courage to decide what I want out of this life? Even if it conflicts with the textbook LDS approach to happiness? And therefore, to minimize the role of the church for this season, and search for happiness in other ways that benefit humanity?
Probably not.
Those experiences led me to imagine what a life of happiness looks like, and claim it, in spite of the influence of the church that had directed so much of my time and effort for decades.
A new spin on imagination and its relationship to local leadership!
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