Turning the Page

I’m about to start a new chapter. A new adventure. There will be mountains to scale and rivers to cross. It’s going to be epic. What’s even more exciting is the pages are blank. It’s up to me to write a comedy, drama, self-help, or tragedy. I get to decide how the story will develop.
I tendered by resignation at my current job. Many might think I have lost my mind. I have a stable job with great benefits. Why not ride it out until retirement? I could do that easily. I could lay back in comfortable complacency and traverse the next 15 years with little to no professional struggle. That sounds like a pretty good place to be doesn’t it!
I can’t be satisfied with that life. I’m at a pivotal moment in my life and career. I have come to a crossroad and I can choose to maintain the smooth sailing I’m on or I can choose adventure. As Ralph Waldo Emerson stated I want to ‘...leave a trail’ rather than ‘follow a path...’.
My wife started her business one year ago and it has grown exponentially. God has truly blessed our efforts and one year later we are at a point where she needs help and we feel that it’s time for me to join her on this adventure of owning our own business and working as a family in it’s success!
She has encouraged me to also look beyond her business and to begin charting a new path as an HR Consultant and Mediator, which have been dreams of my own. She is also pushing me to begin a passion anew, writing. I have always been creative and writing has been a passion for years but with family, work, and life it was pushed to the background. I will be picking the pen back up and see what new things come out.
It’s amazing to know you are divinely appointed for your path. As a great pastor stated recently, ‘If God’s dream for you doesn’t scare you and make you feel inadequate it’s not God’s dream for you.’ The point being that God wants us to dream big. Our dreams should unsettle us and make us feel a little inadequate and ultimately lead to a reliance and faith in God to help us succeed. I am shaking in my boots as I stand at this crossroad of my life.
But I’m not turning back.
The blank pages ahead intrigue me and I must move forward.
jamie

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  1. Shae ShaeJanuary 24, 2018 at 5:57 PM

    Kudos to you for stepping out into your passion!! While reading your blog, I thought how important it is to be connected to YOUR "right" soulmate. Your soulmate should push you to be a better 'you'! Can't get any better! You have an army cheering you on, so no turning back!!!

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