Day 145 - Ending and Beginning

Today was a very difficult day for me.  It was the end of my professional career with Patterson Dental Company.  I had worked for the past almost two years with many great and wonderful people in this organization.  From peers, to the support staff at the local DFW branch, the Territory reps, and Equipment specialists and even others around the country, I bid farewell and continued great success.  It was indeed my pleasure to be apart of this team.  I loved what I did and the offices I met in the performance of my job.  I am proud to have met everyone and look forward to meeting again in a different capacity as I transition into a new facet of dentistry.

Leaving something to begin something else is scary and exciting.  I have answered this challenge many times in the over thirty years since I began my career in dentistry.  Each time the new adventure was a stepping stone in professional advancement and development.  I love dentistry and truly am blessed to be joining the team at Dental Compliance Specialists.

My passion for the profession has always been about making great staff greater by improving the quality of dentistry for patients.  And by educating the public in advances in dentistry to help make their lives better. I don't shy away from difficult situations or challenges.  It is part of who I am.  Being able to lend my years of experience to a company whose focus is on helping dental offices with their integrity excites me.

I purposefully give the Lord Jesus Christ my life in all that I do.  Without His guidance and wisdom I go nowhere.  I will continue to uphold my Christian values and moral principles which have guided me through my life as I begin a new professional chapter.  Honor and glory go to only One and having Him with me is comfort like none other.

Lord, today and for all my days be in charge.  Give me everything I need each day to be who You have called me to be.  Help me help others, it is my desire.  I ask for blessing on the Patterson family I am leaving and also on the Dental Compliance family I am joining.  May Your eternal riches be to each and everyone who seeks You.  Amen

So as I stand from the rock where I have rested to view the beauty of nature I bow my head.  I pray for all the places I have been up to this point.  I bring to this peak the 'broken' places in my life from my childhood to present.  I thank the Lord for the painful times when I didn't think I could go on.  I thank him for the pinnacle times when joy couldn't be contained.  I weep as I let every experience in life be remembered here.  My God is so good and I can feel His presence here like never before.  For a brief moment it is like His arms are a shroud for me.  The wind on my neck, His very breath.

As each care in life is absorbed in this moment I open my eyes to the most beautiful horizon ever.  Before me lies uncharted territory and behind me the path of my purpose.  I strain to take in the panorama and capture it in my mind.  I am confidently going to walk in all the Lord has for me as I start my decent.  I know those plans are for my good, for a hope in my future.  As I stand here delighting in Him I know He hears my heart's desire.  I am counting on Him for all of my tomorrow's.

I sling on my backpack, gather all my belongings.  In this moment I think of what Moses must have felt like on the Mount.  It is almost indescribable, yet now hidden in my heart.  Before I turn to leave I cry aloud, "Father I love you with a depth I can't describe.  I trust You completely.  I need you with me every moment.  Thank You for meeting me here.  As Your daughter may I live the rest of my life's passion with Your fervor.  May everyone I encounter feel You through me."

I wipe the tears away and start the trek into my unknown but where His promise is to be abundantly more than I can ask, think or imagine.