{"id":40361,"date":"2025-01-30T20:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T04:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=40361"},"modified":"2025-01-31T00:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:33:31","slug":"40361-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/40361-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold chicken nugget – Remain in His Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been uncanny how many areas of my life have been overlapping.\u00a0The concepts from Mining for Gold: Developing Kingdom Leaders Through Coaching[1]<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>have been contemplated on in both my work and my personal life. Therefore, I will be talking a whole lot about myself more than I normally feel comfortable with.\u00a0 \u00a0I work for an organization that has had major growth and the accompanying growth pains.\u00a0\u00a0 Leadership has changed so often and so quickly that is impossible to find a stability.\u00a0 My position is one in which the site leader and I are next to each other in leadership of the team. In the two years I have been there I have had seven different leaders I have worked with. The constant change has put me in positions of having to cover many areas that are beyond my role and I have had a hard time keeping boundaries. \u00a0\u00a0Just as I had built relationship and trust, there was a turnover and I was struggling with my deep insecurities of not doing enough or not measuring up.\u00a0 This fueled my overworking, my lack of self-care and my frustration with not hearing from the Spirit. We recently hired a head chaplain who has started coaching me in the last two months.\u00a0 With wisdom he has gently pointed out the harm of my behavior and given me permission to rest, reflect and set boundaries. \u00a0This perfectly timed class and reading shows me the Holy Spirit\u2019s voice that has been there all along.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Camacho\u2019s book is simple yet profound, reminding me of the truths of kingdom leadership.\u00a0 I am taking the time to keep the healthy boundaries that \u201care the atmosphere of love and the context in which real relational thriving can take place.\u201d (Camacho 2019, 102) It is impossible to live in my sweet spot without healthy boundaries, they keeps me emotionally safe (Camacho 2019, 20). \u00a0Instead of trying to measure up to my delusion of what I thought my leaders expected, I can bring the strength of who I am to my work.\u00a0 I have often viewed God as the disappointed task master with demanding expectations that I can never accomplish. I project this unto my leaders.\u00a0 Functioning in my identity in Christ and sitting in his love is something I must consciously remember to do because it is not my default and I\u2019m too busy doing the things to try and gain his love and acceptance of me. I, also, want to be the coaching leader Camacho speaks off, who is not self-focused but leads others in the freedom to be themselves.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My family, my small Pentecostal church and the working-class neighborhood I grew up in created an atmosphere where who I was, was not acceptable.\u00a0 I was loud, creative and had endless energy. I was blunt and honest. I had a huge heart for the marginalized and hung out with the broken rebels. I was boy crazy and loved dance. I was a natural leader and a female. I was everything a good Christian girl should not be and my family was sure to put me in my proper place.\u00a0 When you grow up under this suppression of being yourself, you feel like something is wrong with you and wonder why God wired me this way, give me these passions and had me bear such strange fruit (Camacho 2019, 86-90). \u00a0Being freed to be the way God has made me to be takes a lot of rooting out of the lies and standing strong in the truth of God\u2019s design for me. \u00a0Coaching has truly kept me on track to healthy leadership. If you have preserved to this point, reading through my self-reflective babbling, I appreciate your steadfastness and patience!<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a>Camacho, Tom.\u00a0Mining for Gold: Developing Kingdom Leaders Through Coaching<\/em>. La Vergne: Inter-Varsity Press, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been uncanny how many areas of my life have been overlapping.\u00a0The concepts from Mining for Gold: Developing Kingdom Leaders Through Coaching[1] have been contemplated on in both my work and my personal life. Therefore, I will be talking a whole lot about myself more than I normally feel comfortable with.\u00a0 \u00a0I work for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3405,1555],"class_list":["post-40361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dlgp4","tag-camacho","cohort-dlgp04"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40361\/revisions\/40373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}