A beautiful send off

During our Mothering Sunday service this morning, as we celebrated the women who have walked with us on our faith journeys and encouraged us on the way, the church family blessed me on my way to sabbatical as this was the last Sunday I'll be with them til my return mid-July.

As it's common for a pilgrim to carry a stone, I was given a stone engraved with our church logo and the question I'm seeking guidance about on the reverse: And now what...? This is a question I'm also asking the church family to seek God about whilst I'm not around.

It was such a moving moment to stand in the middle of church, with my church family around me, each holding the stone for a moment and praying a blessing over me whilst The Blessing song was played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDMijhOUOqk

Feeling very blessed right now. What a beautiful and fitting send-off.

Keeping updated!

With thanks to Mr Google I have managed to connect this blog with my ministry Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/revdalitaylor So if you follow me on Facebook on that page when I post here you'll see a notification post that says this:

"There's a new post on my sabbatical blog: https://revalitaylor.blogspot.com/" and you'll know to check here for new content. Though I think there may occasionally be a bit of a time delay before these connected posts appear as I'm only signed up to the free version and I refuse to pay to make it any quicker!

Here's hoping this works. In fact, this post will either prove everything is set up properly...or not! And if not then rest assured I'll be seeking further support from dear Mr Google...!

Am exploring other ways of notifying folk about new posts...will let you know if I find anything!

A little bit of reading

I'm really looking forward to having the opportunity to do some reading whilst I'm on sabbatical, but have made a start on these already by way of preparation:

Here are the ones still to be read...the first stack is directly linked to my pilgrimage walk in Italy:

This second pile are books I've been intending to read for a while! Looking forward to doing a lot of reading in the wonderful log cabin Andy put up last year in the garden.