Typically on Monday mornings at 10:30 I’d be heading to the PCC staff meeting. But instead, since yesterday was my last day on staff, I am sitting in Caribou catching up on some reading and emails. It’s a good morning to be inside sipping some coffee given the cold and wet weather.

Yesterday was a strange day. It was kind of surreal spending my last few hours on staff delivering a sermon. It was really odd to walk out of the building around 1:00 knowing it was the last time I would do so as a staff person. Next weekend Maggie and I will be at a wedding in Wisconsin and the following weekend is my first on staff at NC3 in Chicago. I’ve got about an hour of clean-up to do in my office, but otherwise it will probably be a little while until the next time I’m in the PCC building.

I had the chance to talk to a lot of folks before, between and after services yesterday. People said some very kind things and I was reminded repeatedly just how much like family Parkview has been to Maggie and I. It was only appropriate to go to Wendys with some of our PCC friends after the second service. Frankly, I think Wendys food is really not good… but that place holds a ton of great memories of Sunday afternoon lunches with friends.

The next couple of weeks between jobs will be interesting.  Surely there will be plenty of activity to distract me, but I fully expect moments when I look out our living room windows to the PCC building and experience a sense of sadness.  I suppose that’s a whole lot better than feeling a sense of glee!

Related…

• Here’s a PDF of my thank-you note to PCC that was in yesterday’s bulletin.