On the 11th May 2010, I will be leaving the shores of England to move to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I have set up this blog to keep everyone up to date with what I'm up to as I move to and settle in Canada.
A couple of weeks ago as I was sitting in a meeting room at my office in a state of nervous excitement giving details of my departure from the company, my CEO (who's my boss) asked me why on earth I was quitting my job, packing my life up and moving several thousand miles west. As I tried to make an eloquent response, the answer I realised could easily take hours to explain, but in the end comes back to God and his plans for Katelynn and I, and this step that we are taking is simply being obedient to him and following where he leads us.
A few years ago long before I met Katelynn I made a somewhat audacious statement to a friend at church, saying that it's good to at least once in your life, drop everything to go on an adventure and trust God that he would provide. Now it seems God is calling me on that statement and seeing if I'm going to live up to that. Everything could all go horribly wrong, both of us are trusting God that he would indeed provide everything we need. But if there wasn't a risk, it wouldn't be an adventure.
I'm discovering that there is a lesson in faith being taught here, as a person I'm fairly level headed and not naturally inclined to make what to most would consider an unmeasured decision, but I'm realising more and more that in God's kingdom what is actually wise and measured can often be far different from what the world around us considers it to be. The bible often describes God's wisdom as foolishness to the world, and this experience is teaching me that.
As I write this, my life living in England is beginning to draw to a close. One major ending was my involvement with Bosh. For 5 1/2 years I played keys as we matured musically and went further than any of us expected, we recorded music and played gigs that we were all very proud of. It was a sad farewell, as I savoured each of the last notes of the last song of the last gig in Cornwall, I definitely ended my time on a high. And I will appear on part of the new album which which makes me happy :) Check out the Bosh myspace at www.myspace.com/boshmusic
There's a lot to do now, I have to pack up, get everything ready to be administered remotely, say goodbye to as many people as possible and spend time with my family. I will also need to find a job, I'm talking to a couple of different companies right now about that, watch this space.
I'll write more again soon. I'm told that short, succinct and frequent blogs are better than infrequent epic monologues, so I'll try and stick with that method.
Grant
