Trust Your Heart
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Throughout my career as a pastor, I've generally been good about trusting my instincts when making decisions as a leader. I've learned valuable lessons by making mistakes, to be sure, but for the most part, I've been able to navigate challenges and crises by listening to friends, church members, trusted advisors, and my heart. But during the Covid years, pretty much all of the frameworks I'd constructed, the way I had learned to be a pastor, and the entire way of "doing church" were thrown out the window. When you're largely disconnected from all of the ways that you usually find your way through difficult times, it's disorienting. And so I found myself doing a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, second-guessing my decisions, and feeling that I couldn't trust my instincts and probably shouldn't listen to my heart in the same way I once had. You may have had some experience like this in your own life. You may have made enough mistakes