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Leading on Empty

While on vacation, I began to read Wayne Cordeiro's "Leading on Empty" that takes a look at the toll that leadership can take on our health and effectiveness.  Bill Hybels, the lead pastor at Willow Creek stated on his twitter account: "The way I was doing the work of God was destroying the work of God in me".  I think Pastor Hybels statement both sums up "Leading on Empty" and many of the things that are reasonating in my soul right now. I have been tremendously blessed with a fantastic family, good friends, a growing and vibrant body of believers, and good health.  Yet, I would agree with one of the premises of the book, that I could lose all of that because of a failure to intentionally do the important things.  One could blame external circumstances but the greatest source of distraction is sadly, my own inner voices that give life to my shame based need to accomplish, my insecurity based need to be liked, and my pain based need  experience pleas