In order to better the future we must disturb the present.
— Catherine Booth
Reflection
If the future is going to be better, someone has to be willing to disturb the present, and that usually begins quietly within us. I came across the story of Catherine and William Booth, founders of The Salvation Army, thanks to a recent post on the Lectio 365 app, where they also shared this prayer that gripped me: “Disturb me, Lord, when I am too well pleased with myself, when my dreams have come true because I have dreamed too little, when I arrived safely because I sailed too close to the shore… Disturb me, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, I shall find the stars. Amen.” It is dangerous to ask God not merely to comfort us, but to unsettle anything in us that has grown too small, too safe, or too satisfied. Leaders, builders, and changemakers need that kind of holy disturbance.
Looking forward,
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