On the road today, heading back to Ashton to pack and prepare for our return to California.

I was sent by God to serve, used and now, in the spirit of the words of the Wesleyan Covenant prayer, we are "set aside" for a while. There is a strange and beautiful peace in the quietness but also a very real hole in my life now that I have no responsibility to prepare for preaching and leading a community in worship each Sunday.

Discernment always requires a space of quiet to allow the old to fade before the new entrance.

Grace and peace to all.