I've left, ben@sanctus1.co.uk has been deleted, I've signed off the email lists, posted my final post on the Sanctus1 blog, I've had my final night, I shed a few tears and said goodbye to the community that I have been part of for the past eight years. I feel content and that I've done a good job.
It's a strange feeling saying goodbye, there were people there on my final evening who have been there for the last eight years and people who have only been there for a few weeks, and of course a researcher! I have to say I feel slightly liberated, not in a negative way, but that something that I have been responsible for has been handing on in a responsible way. The hand over is complete and so are these posts. So what next?
Well Immediately, I'm off on holiday on Sunday. Myself, Ruth, Jude and Lily are going down to Devon to stay with my parents for a few days and then after that I have another three weeks off. During this time I'll be going away to St Deniols for a few days to write. The rest of the time will be spent both writing and doing a bit of DIY. I think that the office and upstairs bathroom need sorting out...
After that well, it's all a bit secret at the moment, and that makes it sound more exciting than it really is! But I've been told to keep it under my hat for a bit longer. I'll still be half time at Brunswick Parish Church so still in Manchester, I'm hoping to finish my PhD in the next year, I'm also in conversation with a publisher about a book, I'll still be programming worship at Greenbelt, still networking and thinking and mission and church in contemporary culture, still doing work for Fresh Expressions and MTAG. So I'm not going to be bored.
But now a rest...
