Seven years of co-labouring, hanging out, eating together, training, team teaching, oh, and eating together... and still friends forever!

God bless the Byrd family as they move to Colorado... may part of their hearts stay here!

It's easy to feel alone.
If you do, or ever have it would be a very normal thing.
Everywhere you look in every direction you see noone giving your reflection back to you. All you see is the reflection of that which is different.
You wonder where is the familiar? How did I get here? Did everyone get off the bus when I wasn't looking or have I moved forward when everyone else was standing still?

Being alone is usually not the true perspective. It's not the one others would see. They see misplaced, or displaced... Maybe they see what could befrom a different field, leaving a dissatisifaction with the way things were.

Leaders are often alone.

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Simon and his companions went to look for him,
and when they found him, they exclaimed: "Everyone is looking for you!"
Mark 1:35-37