Wednesday

• Usual weekday AM routine: prayer, tea, breakfast, some internet reading, task planning.
• Spoke by phone with the rector of Belleville about this Sunday's visitation to St George's.
• Responded, in substantive detail, to an email inquiry from one of our parish clergy on a range of distinct but cognate issues.
• Read and partially responded to reports from the Commission on Ministry and the Standing Committee on various actions they took last Saturday.
• Inspected and commented on the draft of the clergy retreat liturgy sheets as provided by Fr Hankinson.
• Reviewed a résumé and OTM portfolio of a priest who is interested in possible deployment in the diocese. Forwarded his materials to the leadership of a Eucharistic Community that is in search.
• Lunched on leftovers. 
• Carefully read the discharge instructions from Brenda's hospital stay and plotted appropriate followup tasks.
• Spoke by phone (for about an hour) with one of our parish clergy over an emerging concern.
• Did the finish work on my homily for this Sunday at St George's, Belleville.
• Took a long, brisk walk on a late afternoon that was somewhat mild, but with lots of slush and standing water to dodge.
• Evening Prayer with Brenda.
• After dinner: Drafted and sent a memo to the Archdeacon recapping my discussion last Sunday with the leadership at St Thomas', Glen Carbon.