Add to this the fact that I (Dave) am really struggling and/or having a 'desert experience' and it all got a bit much last year and we felt the need to get out and have a break from the cycle we had got locked into. In many ways this goes against all that we believe i.e you hang on in there no matter what etc but for our sanity we had to take some time out.
Well 5 months or so on and we are returning this Sunday. We have looked at other Church's and not found any as good as the one we used to go to....
The whole 5 months has been good though. We have ended up in a place where, for the first time for years we have missed our Church and that has to be good.