Beech Trees

It is the season for beech trees. They are the ones you see mostly now because of something they do that's makes them remarkable.  They don't drop their leaves after the leaves change.  That's good too, because if they did you would never notice them at all.  They don't really have much else to recommend them.  They have very unspectacular fall color- paper bag brown.  They don't have flowers that you would ever notice.  They are slow growing.  They are not really commercially available in the ornamental tree market.  Nobody goes to the garden center and asks if they have the beech trees in yet.  But we notice them now because they do something different.  So then what is our season?  What as leaders do we do- not spectacular, but remarkable.  If we are indeed to lead in discipleship and lead others to do the same we have to matter instead of manipulate.  We have to be present instead of placate.  We have to offer difference instead of indifference.  Dale Dauten writes in the book The Max Strategy that "Each quandary is a call for experimentation.  Each experiment a question put to the world.  Each answer a journey.  Let life plan the itinerary.  Your job is to pack light and bring a camera."  Assuming that tomorrow will bring it's own unique set of quandaries: What will you do different tomorrow?  Who do you think will notice?  Why does it matter?