finally, some facts

Saturday, I took time out to reflect on the week before. What a whirlwind of events, emotions, encounters.

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The meetings were insightful, getting to know scores of people was crucial to my new job and the course was just so stimulating. I thrive on learning new things - and this was certainly a lot of technicalities to take in. Working on brand identity, you can easily loose the bigger picture, so it was excellent.
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Being back in America was great and not so much of a reverse culture shock that I normally fear. The seams in the freeway, the strawberry cream cheese and the free wireless were just so fun. I guess being there with someone who knows your anxiousness, your anticipation and enjoys it helps. It helps a lot.

Some of you might remember him from Malaysia, the young media / comms / photographer / daily newsbrief man running around at the leaders conference. Andrew flew some 6 hours over to NY to meet me there for the weekend (here is a picture of him taking a picture of Ground Zero - he'll kill me for posting this but oh well). Such a perfect day welcomed us there. 17°C and not a cloud in the November sky above New York. We had to remind ourselves neither to let the perfect circumstances nor the intensity of our weekend cloud our view and decision making capabilities. It's not like I want to fill the whole Internet into what happened that day...
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Still, after hundreds of frustrating and thrilling hours of Skype over none less than 9 time zones, Andrew held my hand in person. A heart-felt declaration followed him asking me to think and pray about how I felt if he gave up his job, flat, life at the end of this year and came over to live here for a few months. The idea being, we will never be able to get to know each other better over Skype if one of us doesn't make a move. A great time of prayer together followed in Central Park and I was left to bring it up to God on my own this last Saturday.
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The role he plays at his company makes the step all the more significant. It goes without saying that it will be a tremendous loss for them. Yet we have both separately flooded heaven's gates with zillions of questions and earnest desire for wisdom and guidance above our desires. So, what happens when inexplicable peace enough for today abounds and yet the future remains unknown?
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A crazy step like Andrew coming to live in Geneva/ France the first or second week of January 2007.
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SO excited!