The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
-Buechner

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Dud

I pulled only a few of the fruits of our labour out of the garden just before supper tonight.

Well okay, maybe it's more like the vegetables of our labour and one dud carrot.

Yeah, yeah go ahead and enjoy a good laugh at our expense.

All but the carrot were enjoyed. It's still sitting there. Looking sad and lonely...and slightly pathetic.

And to completely flip the topic, this time tomorrow Imagine staff will have completed their first full day, in several months, at the newly opened office. I can't wait. There is still so much unknown but with the team(s) behind this baby, I just can't see it going awry. There's too much heart, soul, passion, time, energy, talent and expertise, education, and pure drive to see it flop.

Yes, there is much that is unknown. But reflecting upon what we did know (all of us), we are now more well versed. We are more aware and perhaps this is the cause for all the freak-out panic. We know more and are therefore more aware of how much can go wrong. We've invested so much and still nothing (ever) is concrete. Yes, we're all much further into a wait with much more to come. Yet, with this new emergence comes a breath of fresh air.

Right now I'm taking one deep breath at a time. Because maybe it took pulling up one dud, in order to learn how to better grow it the second time around.

1 comment:

Chad, Laura, Sara and Seth said...

thanks for the chuckle...that poor pathetic thing :)

L