Day 32 of 100 Happy Days
Today is my fourth anniversary at work. I can't believe it has been four years already since I moved to Davao to work for this indigenous community and leadership development non-government organization. It feels like it has been a very long time and very short as well.
I am so blessed to have experienced and learned so many things in the past four years that I sometimes wonder how often it happens that a job can combine all your life passions.
Here is an excerpt of an email I sent to The Boss when I accepted the job offer four years ago:
I also felt it very fitting that today, I was back in UP to conduct a training for the fourth batch of our Osmosis participants. :) The university that challenged me to fight for social justice and to give back to my fellowmen through serving the marginalized in the country is where I was on the day I celebrated four years of building pathways for holistic transformational development to take place in indigenous communities. Yes, that was a mouthful. I don't know how else to say it. Haha.
Today is my fourth anniversary at work. I can't believe it has been four years already since I moved to Davao to work for this indigenous community and leadership development non-government organization. It feels like it has been a very long time and very short as well.
I am so blessed to have experienced and learned so many things in the past four years that I sometimes wonder how often it happens that a job can combine all your life passions.
Here is an excerpt of an email I sent to The Boss when I accepted the job offer four years ago:
Just so you have an idea of why I (and my accountability partners) think this job is so awesome, I shall share with you my "triad of life passions". The things in my triad did not materialize overnight. I got to realize my passions over a period of years. Looking back at how God led me to where I am now and what I have been doing and what I could be doing, I cannot help but praise Him. I praise God that He is showing me how He can give us the desires of our heart if we delight in Him first.I am very happy. It's a sober kind of happy. It's not the giddy I-think-I-found-my-dream-job kind of happy. It's the it-feels-great-to-be-able-to-commit-to-something-for-the-long-haul kind of happy. And I am thankful for it.
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| Highlights from the past four years (clockwise): Bringing an Obo Manobo team over to Northeast India to join the Tribal Christian Gathering; New Zealand Osmosis; living up in Mt Apo for 10 months; and organizing the first Indigenous Theological Symposium in Mindanao |
I also felt it very fitting that today, I was back in UP to conduct a training for the fourth batch of our Osmosis participants. :) The university that challenged me to fight for social justice and to give back to my fellowmen through serving the marginalized in the country is where I was on the day I celebrated four years of building pathways for holistic transformational development to take place in indigenous communities. Yes, that was a mouthful. I don't know how else to say it. Haha.
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| The University of the Philippines Diliman, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. My home for four years of undergraduate studies in the university |
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