Unstuck

I have a great little book. It's for business, but they should do one for personal life as well. It's called "Unstuck", and it's by the founder of SYPartners, where I used to work.

Today I said goodbye to one of my dearest friends, Zainab, as she leaves for Dubai tomorrow. I cried the whole time... mostly because it's a perfect storm right now of her leaving, about six other friends leaving or already left, feeling like I need to do the same thing, and being unsure of how to do it.

Yesterday at work, I attended the most incredible presentation by a Ghananian who dreamed up a way to help the entire continent of Africa. It's called the African Leadership Academy, and it's just gorgeous, amazing, so well thought-out, and it will change Africa for sure. It's a long-term strategy for developing leaders with a two-year post-high-school/pre-college boarding program. I'm just amazed. Look it up online and enjoy.

I want to leave. Want to get out. I am praying that the current job I'm in is the last admin job I ever do. It is time to fly the coop, because my spirit is just withering away in this place.

If I can swim with anacondas and get a horse to trust and obey me in a tropical hailstorm, I can find a job doing something constructive and move. Period.

The other goal is to be confirmed a Catholic in August, before leaving, wherever "leaving" ends up being. I have complete peace about this and also find that I am having to drive the process. But every time I pick up the phone and push it, the doors open, and all the support I need is there. I'm looking forward to this, as I am not alone in sensing that God has great things He wants to do with that.