Peace Building Leadership
Compiled By Rev. Patrice Joy, MA, Holy Fire Reiki Master Instructor
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A servant leader is a peace builder. To be a leader one must learn the humility to follow. This is not being browbeaten and downtrodden. It is true security from within to know you are worthwhile and don’t need to elevate yourself to prove it. It involves the quality of being able to emphasize with the challenges and adversity others are facing. To have true empathy, personal experience is the best teacher.
This incorporates the quality of compassion. Compassion is the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it. When you act with compassion and caring kindness, you are “walking the talk.” Author Olivia McIvor who wrote the book The Business of Kindness challenges, “We are here to walk each other home. Is there someone in your life or at your workplace who needs someone to walk them home?”
Quotes that relate to the character-building trait of trust.
Margaret Young made the statement, “You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do in order to have what you want.”
Mahatma Gandhi made this quote, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Norman Cousins has written, “Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life.”
This anonymous quote merits consideration, “No thought lives in your heart rent-free. It’s either costing you or paying you.”
Dr. Mansukh Patel reminds us, “Greatness comes from the smallest of beginnings, but leaves a large influence. We are all responsible for creating a positive world change.”
Elbert Hubbard defines true friendship, “Your friend is the person who knows all about you and still likes you.”
The quality of gratitude encourages this trait in others. When we pay attention to the little things others do, we give those around us the gift of witnessing our gratitude for their presence in our life. When we pay kindness forward out of friendship, we are sharing the ability for others to show gratitude. Do ten acts of random kindness and then notice how it affects you. This can have an important benefit to change the energy of a person’s life and can even affect a department or a whole organization. In this way you are being a leader through service. We must accept one person can make a difference and ask, “What am I doing for others?