A new journey

After 13 years working in Corporate America- it was time to say good-bye, and now- a new journey is beginning.

It's been a few weeks since I have stepped away from my role, and many of you have asked, what sparked the change?, what are you going to be doing next?, and the answer to all of it is...FAITH.  Faith sparked my change, and Faith in God is where I will be going next!  I pray that God will lead me and open new doors. 

I loved my job.  My job had great rewards, great projects, great teams, great leaders and great friends.  What my job also had was my whole-heart.  What I didn't realize at the time, was I was giving, and giving, and giving my everything to my job, because I truly loved it.  But what I was missing were my other loves...

1. My faith and my God

2. My husband

3. My children

4. My family 

5. My friends

6. Volunteering

7. ME

My love for my job filled me in many ways, but as a result it also drained me.  I would get great satisfaction from successes that came from work, and let the rest of my world run status-quo.  I was blessed and able to do this because I have an amazing husband, who is full of faith, carried the weight of our family, our friends, and our commitments in my absence while I continued to work.  But it was a few months back, when resentment started to creep in. When jealously lurked here and there, when my alarm clock began to sound...but I snoozed my alarm clock and kept moving 100 mph on my work.

For many days, months if not years, my drive became stronger, but my focus on God and my family became blurred.  I was heads-down, full speed ahead on driving my career.  I never would have admitted to this then, but looking back, sadly I was.  So, where does faith come in to this story...it starts here!

For months, my husband and children would make small, but still supportive remarks- I would brush those off.  Then as the stress built of doing it all...I cracked.  I was lost.  I didn't have my eyes focused on God, on my family, on myself.  I don't know that I could answer the question "Who is Phuong?"  So, it was time to stop hitting the snooze button to my wake up call, and begin to start realizing who this woman is.  

So, yes, it may have been too drastic, too bold, too risky- but I prayed a prayer of salvation, a prayer for guidance, a prayer of hope- and I took the biggest, boldest leap of faith I could to revive, jump start my focus on my FAITH, FAMILY, FRIENDS, and me- and left my 13 year career.

I am not sure where my journey will lead, however I am confident that my relationship with God, my family and friends will only grow stronger through this.  

So, I'm going to start blogging my journey for me, but hope that you enjoy reading it too.  

Thanks to for all your support and love- I can’t wait to see where the road will lead!  

Psalm 118: 24 "This is the day the Lord has made;We will rejoice and be glad in it."