You're in this room not just because this is your role — but because you love the people you're leading.
And right now, the people you're leading are the most creative, expressive, and culturally flexible generation to ever live. We see their genius. We love them. But we don't always understand them.
Yet here's what I know: God has strategically placed you to help them see not just who they are — but who they could be. Your role isn't just an opportunity. It's a divine assignment.
You're managing minds, emotions, behavior, expectations, and people — often before your first cup of coffee.
You're expected to be calm, creative, patient, and emotionally regulated — all at once, every single day.
The pressure on leaders is real. But so is the calling.
Sight is what you see with your eyes open. Vision is what you see with your eyes closed.
Everything around you was someone's vision first. Your phone. Your car. The organization you lead. Before any of it existed, someone had to see it when nothing around them confirmed it was possible.
Vision sees what isn't there yet — and works like it already is.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was barren, with no form of life; it was under a roaring ocean covered with darkness. But the Spirit of God was moving over the water.
The first thing we learn about God is that he had vision over chaos.
Before anything existed, God saw what could be — and moved toward it.
The leader who moves first is always the one with vision.
The Lord answered me: Write down this vision; clearly inscribe it on tablets so one may easily read it.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
While Jacob was in conversation with them, Rachel came up with her father's sheep. She was the shepherd. The moment Jacob spotted Rachel... he went and single-handedly rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban. Then he kissed Rachel and broke into tears.