I had an interesting day in London today with a couple of meetings which I think are likely to be my final YFC engagements.

It feels odd, but not as odd as I thought it might. In fact the long drawn out leaving thing has enabled me to focus quite well on the future. Rather than a sudden ‘all change’ the gradual letting go of YFC and the gradual taking up the reigns of thinking about something new are working quite well for me.

I met with Luella this morning at Waterloo and we wandered over to the Southbank Centre for coffee and to talk about how things are progressing with Basingstoke YFC. While there we came across Volume which looked great but I feel the need to return in the evening with my children to see it properly. I think we’ll do that when Sarah goes to Soul Survivor with her youth group.

As we sat and watched people engage with Volume, yet again there were 2 distinct reactions and quite uniformly these reactions separate into adult and children. Adults were trying to ‘get it’, to understand the experience or to be able to explain it. The most beautiful reaction I saw was a girl of about 5 or 6 gracefully dancing between the speakers and lights while flapping her arms like an angel or a fairy. This little girl had it sussed – this was not for explaining or understanding – this was created to enjoy.

There is a sermon there somewhere!