I grew up on a stage, married into the Army, and have lived in Alabama, South Korea, Texas, and Italy along the way. I'm a mother of three. I buried a son, Isaac, lost to trisomy 18, in a country that wasn't mine. The book is not a highlight reel, and neither is this page.
Here's what I believe, underneath all of it. You are a leader because you are divine. Not because you have a title. Not because you finally feel confident on a given Tuesday. Because you are a daughter of God, and that was true before any role you've ever held and it'll still be true after every one of them ends. I didn't arrive at that as a theory. I arrived at it on a floor, holding a screaming infant, absolutely convinced God had made a mistake putting me in charge of her.
When I started writing this, I went looking for leadership books for Christian women and came up mostly empty. That surprised me. The God I know has spent all of human history celebrating, amplifying, and building up strong women, so where were the books? I felt prompted, clearly enough that I couldn't talk myself out of it, to write the one I couldn't find.
Leading with Divine Purpose is the book I needed someone to hand me a decade ago. I wrote it instead, and it's as much for me as it is for you.
