Joanne got back from San Antonio after being at a Beth Moore conference for a few days.  She ended up coming home early, arriving at 9 in the morning as opposed to 7 at night as originally scheduled.  She called me on Saturday and asked if there was any way to get her on an earlier flight.  I poked around on the United website, talked to a guy at the call center in India and ended up getting her that earlier flight she wanted.

All of this was driven by the fact that Joanne just wanted to be home. I can relate.  On my many trips down to Phoenix and the Leadership Catalyst office, I often start to get a little voice in the back of my head that nags me about getting back home and to my family.  I really enjoy being in Phoenix with the team, and that group of people feels like community to me, but home and my family here in Denver, is where I long to be when I am gone for any length of time.

I got thinking about this yesterday and wondered where that pull comes from. Here’s what I came up with: in our home, each of us (the kids included) are free to be ourselves, to forget about mask-wearing which we all sometimes do when we are out of our safe place and away from our community.  We are able to be in that unique place where we give and receive protective love–a love that allows us to trade permission for protection.  Basically it is the place that allows my family to live out the principles that we hold so dear at Leadership Catalyst (LCI).  Ideally we could live that way out in the world, and we certainly try to keep those masks off but the rest of it can only be experienced in community, and that, for my family, starts at home.

Then I got thinking about all the people who don’t experience these things in their home and how difficult it must be to have the people that should be closest to you out at arm’s length.  I guess that’s why we have so much impact and success meeting with families as we teach these principles.  We are able to help transform a home where masks are always on, secrets are always kept and self-protection is the way of life, into a place where a family can experience the fullness and authenticity of a TrueFaced relationship.

Each of us at LCI has our particular audience that we are passionate about reaching with this message.  For me, the thing that drives me each day is the idea that we can improve the lives of families with these truths.

Please don’t get the idea that things at the Heim household are perfect and that we live in this utopian bubble.  That’s not the case at all.  But for me it is the closest thing to the manifestation of the truths that we teach and the thing that triggers the longing to return home when we are away on trips.

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