I'm on my way

This is a vacation week. It is a week that is "in between times"...between saying farewell to CRLC and the official beginning of sabbatical...December 1.

I have a sense of "collecting myself".

I am gathering my writing and reading supplies. I am preparing my "niche" in my home which will serve as a temporary office. I decided to arrange it in a place apart from the normal home office where all of the business transactions take place.

I am shifting from the schedule where my time is dictated by appointments and regular commitments to a schedule that will be "ordered" by the spiritual practices of prayer, study, reflection and writing. I've never lived this way ... it is new to me... and I wonder in the depth of my soul at the way God will work His will for this phase of my life.

I noticed on Sunday something that was surprising: I had anticipated a sense of separation or closure.... Instead, there was a prevailing feeling of "welcome"... It seemed odd! Yet as I prayed my way through those hours of saying farewell to CRLC, I was met by countless individuals who said "I will be praying for you"!
What seemed on the surface to be a time of "moving away" was actually a time when the "moving into" process was of greatest prominence!

I give thanks for the companionship of the CRLC community...and so many others.

I don't know where I am going... but I am on my way!