Back to it!

I am not quite sure why I have not posted for a while. I had two weeks away during which it was announced I was leaving. Preparations for leaving as well as having to keep the day by day going on have meant that there has not been much time. The last four years have certainly been interesting ones weaved as much with pain and sorrow as joy and blessing. I leave a very different kind of priest than I thought I would. Maybe to put it correctly I leave a different priest to how others thought I should be.
It was a great blessing yesterday to preside at the Eucharist in St Timothy's and then St David's Ely. I have done many funerals and weekday masses there but not a Sunday until yesterday. I will forever have a vision of the congregations joining in "Sing it in the Valleys" with gusto. They were delighted with news of a new Vicar Fr Jesse Smith who will I am sure lead them forward and consoldate much of the good work already done. I wonder how different my curacy would have been if it had been somewhere like Ely. But perhaps on reflection much of it has been!