Turning Points

I just sent this email to about 3 dozen Sony employees around the world shortly after emptying my last thing from my office:

"Everybody: I always said over the long arc of my time at the company, "The day I leave Sony, will be the day that Anna Nicole Smith wins a case at the Supreme Court!"  I must be more careful with such language in the future.

So, after 14 years, I am moving on and wanted to send off my well wishes and thanks. 

 

It has been a great run.  I've deeply appreciated the working relationships, the mentors I've had here, and the deep friendships -- on both sides of the ocean -- that have been an intrinsic part of my time here at Sony.  It has been an honor and a pleasure.  

Thanks and best wishes to you all..."

Frederick Buecher wrote that when you look at your life, the things you think are the really big turning points -- the ones you really worry over -- rarely really are. And the minor decisions you thought almost nothing of at the time, turn out often to be the true points where the direction of your life changes.

Who knows which one this is, it feels big, but who knows. The main point I guess is to trust God for both the "big" and "small" decisions and trust that in the end He knows a lot better about these things than we do either way.

Tim