Called to be WILD...Leadership Development: What is WILD?

Welcome to WILD!
Women In Leadership Development
Every woman is a leader. We lead in homes, schools, groups, the workplace, the community, and churches. We lead in friendships and neighborhoods. As the heartbeat of society, we lead everywhere we are, everywhere we go and with every breath we take. Once we realize this, we will rise to the call of the WILD, and begin to get excited about the life God has planned for us.

From the time we were born until the day we take our last breath, God has a purpose for each one of us. Some days life doesn't feel loaded with purpose, but each and every day is. To be called to the Wild is to be called to embrace a life of being:

A Woman In Life-Long Development

To be in development, is to be growing gradually, expanded to something better and more useful. But being developed doesn't happen over night, it's gradual--or baby step by baby step.
This kind of life is different than the quick fix life of our culture.

Slow isn't popular.
Speed is sexy and exciting. It's easy to see how we get sucked into perfection. The need to be perfect and get our act together TODAY, is not God's way...it's a cultural mandate to perform and perfect, as we polish our exterior selves as women who "look" the right part.

God is not concerned with us looking the right part. He is concerned with the condition of our hearts. So it's not enough to lead with our heads, we must learn to surrender our hearts.

It's WILD to think that God's plan is Process not Perfection. Think about it.
What in your life is far from perfect?
What process does God have you in, even now?
Can you see God's hand in shaping you, little by little?

Oswald Chambers said:
"Most of us develop our Christianity along the lines of our own nature. Impulsiveness is a trait of the natural life. It is ingrained in us that we have to do exceptional things for God--but we do not. We have to be exceptional int he ordinary things of life, and holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people--and this is not learned in five minutes."

Jesus said:
"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last." John 15:16

We are women who have been appointed to live fruitful lives! The word appointed means: equipped, set in place by authority or decided. He set us in our places by His authority, and He equipped us, and decided that He would work through us.

Does that excite anyone besides me? Because that makes me filled with anticipation.

Here's the challenge--can we live in the call?