People follow leaders.  They followed Jesus.  They followed Moses.  Mother Theresa didn't seem to have any trouble finding helpers.  They follow leaders because something about the leaders, their personality, their ideas, their actions, resonate with them.  There is an innate sense within that moves us to follow, to head south or north, east or west and not only so moves us but tells us that we are going in the right direction.  Whether it's a Horace Greeley telling us to go West young man, or Moses telling us to leave Egypt, our true self, our soul, knows when the message and time is right for us.  We can reason our selves out of listening to it, but it's there.  It might be a very faint sense in some of us, but it's in all of us.  Some of us search for leaders and grab hold of icons offered by the world of entertainmnet, industry or government and become fans, backers, loyal supporters, only to find in the end that the King is naked and the message we grabbed onto was a mere tickling of our ears and appeal to our physical senses and/or needs.  But that innate sense of direction that lies within each of us, though it might be buried more and more by the jadedness that grows out of mistaking the appeals to our physical senses for appeals to our heart, is still there and it's important that we never ignore it.  That is why the bible stresses the need not to ignore His voice when we hear it.  What we need to do is learn to listen to that still soft voice and while we Quakers can learn to listen in our Meetings for Worship, what about the world that Jesus died for?  For those we need to go outside our meetings and teach our neighbor how to listen.  We have to stop worrying about the state of our numbers and the state of our meetings and start teaching our neighbors how to listen.  To do that we need to reach out to those who are most likely to listen: the weak, the hurting, the desparate.  Jesus said he didn't come to save the healthy but the sick.  We have to find a way to heal the sick: to feed the hungry and clothe the naked.  We need to leave our historic sacred cows and go out onto the streets of our Indias and minister to those who have no future and try to lighten their cross so they don't die before their crucifixion.  Too many times we give money to organizations to take care of our wounded neighbors - professionals who know what they are doing - but we have become too detached.  The wounded think of the assistance they receive as some form of "right" and the professionals are so overworked that any love they have for the wounded wears thin.  There is a need for a personal touch; love; vulnerability; compassion; and if we listen we can hear God saying "Who can I send".  Do you dare to say: "Send me, Lord".  Leaders listen and follow themselves.  That's how they become leaders and we need Leaders.  It's time to listen to that inner voice and follow.  You will not be alone for long if at all.  Seek and you shall find, listen and you shall hear.