Set aside a few quiet minutes and allow your body to settle into stillness. Let your breathing slow until it feels unforced. As the noise around you fades, acknowledge the truth that leadership often narrows our vision, pulling us toward urgency, problem‑solving, and the subtle pressure to hold everything together. Notice without judgment the places where strain has dimmed your sense of wonder.
When you’re ready, bring to mind one relationship, one team dynamic, or one leadership moment that has recently felt heavy or constricted. Hold it gently in your awareness. Instead of analyzing it or rehearsing what went wrong, simply name the weight of it before God. Let the naming itself be an act of honesty rather than control.
Now imagine Christ standing within that very moment. He is not outside it, not above it, but within it. Picture him not as the one demanding more from you but as the One in whom all things hold together. Let his presence soften the tightness around your expectations. Let his reconciling love loosen the instinct to protect, defend, or withdraw. Stay here long enough for your breathing to deepen again.
As you rest in that image, ask God to restore your capacity to see this situation with renewed wonder. Not naïveté, not denial, but the kind of wonder that opens space for possibility, trust, imagination, and shared wisdom. Allow yourself to sense even a small shift: a gentler posture, a softened assumption, a fresh angle you hadn’t considered.
To close, place your attention on one concrete way Christ might be inviting you to lead differently in light of this restored vision. It may be a conversation, a gesture of generosity, a relinquished fear, or a renewed willingness to collaborate. Hold that invitation quietly, not as a task to accomplish but as a seed entrusted to you.
Read: Meditate on Colossians 1:15-23.
Pray: Let your final breath be a simple prayer of availability:
Christ, restore our sight so we may lead from wonder rather than strain.
