Saturday, June 9

Usually, I get up and do Morning Prayer by myself, or with another person from our monastic order. Shirley and I usually pray the Bedtime Prayers or Compline from the St. Augustine Prayer Book and then have a time of extemporaneous prayer together.

This morning, Shirley and I did Morning Prayer together and read a little about Abbot Columba and prayed the collect in Lesser Feasts and Fasts. It was a good prayer time.

And we're keeping Br. Shorty, our Order dachshund this weekend, while Sr. Clare (his human) does prison ministry. We thought we were going to lose Shorty recently, but the Lord chose to heal him and so he gets to hang around with us still. And that's cool. Shorty was there with Clare at the beginning with Abbot Jim, Sr. Sarah, and Br. Luke when the Order began ('96?) and he was made an honorary brother when everybody else took their vows. He shows us how to live.

Shirley and I are about to take him to the park. Come worship with us tomorrow and meet Shorty.



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