So I am in the beginning (I think beginning) stages of what I've billed as the "Rick Fossum Goodwill Tour". Or what other's might call networking. While there is clearly motive to find work and someone who will pay me for doing it, I've had an additional, and perhaps greater intention—to establish, build, or rebuild relationship. So far so good.
What is interesting is that there have been different points of "last time we'd spoken" with a bunch of people. Some as old as 15 years or more. This has given me the opportunity to share a storyline of multiple lengths dependent upon where and when some folks were last involved in "the book". This has been rewarding. As a communicator and storyteller by nature, I enjoy sharing the updates and in some cases final chapters to the book.
As I am about this new adventure, I am learning more about relationship. It requires time, trust, love, and action. I believe God created us to be in relationship—with Him and with others. In relationship there is risk. In relationship there is reward. In relationship we come alive.
I'm grateful for those of you who've thus far been a "tour stop", and am looking forward to future dates at different venues.