Changing teams

I just said goodbye to a few more of my colleagues from the production side of my team today. From 23 September onward, I will be moving to join a team that I am barely familiar with for good. Will miss my team, for their trust and friendship built across these two years of familiarity. Some things are hard to let go of.

Moving to this new team would be one of the greatest challenge in my working year. I will have to start from scratch to build a close working relationship as I have with my current lab and production team mates, and take in a new subculture unique from team to team. I will also need to stand in for my team leader when he is not around, and train up a new junior. 

Yet I have comfort in through all this God is intentional in leading me this way. I passed many forks along the road that may change the fact if I was to be transferred or otherwise, and each time the path to my transfer was unbelievingly smooth. So smooth that it drove my heart to a strong realization that this transfer has the will of God in it for me, just as He intentionally gave this job to me. I draw comfort and joy from that. I believe He will grow me through this.

So these two weeks I say my goodbyes when getting ready to embrace yet another change in my working life. May this be for God's glory and His kingdom.