Got up and ran (at a slow-average pace); coffee, hot breakfast, Morning Prayer, Midweek Communion for the Annunciation, Chapter Meeting, home for lunch. Marriage preparation class tonight.
I felt an acute temptation to set aside my prepared homily and to talk with our congregation about my Aunt Harriet, and how she could reasonably have responded to the request that she suddenly take over care for her one-year-old nephew by asking, ‘How can this be?’ — but good sense prevailed, and I preached the homily I had prepared.
