A Padfolio
One of our Listen to My Life retreats was held at a beautiful corporate office with large glass windows overlooking the skyline of Dallas. I hadn’t been in a corporate setting in any official capacity since my IBM days of long ago. As Sibyl, Sharon, and I got off the elevator on the ninth floor, we were welcomed by the hosts. I was given my name tag and a black padfolio (a portable case that opens like a book to hold an eight-and-a-half-by-eleven-inch notepad) with the logo of Leadership Network, the Christian organization that was hosting us.
As soon as they handed it to me, I was in shock. I could have crawled into a corner and wept. I had carried a leather one similar to it during the days of my eleven-year career with IBM. It was a visible, physical representation of the culmination of God’s work in my life to date. God had taken my corporate experience, the good and bad parts of my story, my ability to organize and accomplish a multitude of different types of tasks, and my spiritual growth, and then He tied it all together for His purposes. While those thoughts were spinning around in my head, I pulled myself back together, wiped my tears, and turned my attention toward orchestrating a retreat for thirty women that had flown in from all over the country. The retreat was so well received that we were invited back to facilitate future women’s retreats.
When I had time to journal and process what had happened that day, I realized that I had to let go of my ordinary life in South Carolina to be a part of something extraordinary. I had to be willing to let go in order to receive what God had planned for me.
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