6:00 AM - up to take the medication (only 10 more months of the awful stuff!) and time for prayer.
7:00 AM - time for exercise
8:00 AM - shower and breakfast
9:00 AM - work

I'm trying out the ol' morning routine, and monitoring my energy level, in preparation for returning to activity as pastor of St. Stephen!

My work is reading and writing for the Shalem Institute spiritual direction program. This two-year program is my chief continuing education effort right now. My hospitalization prevented me from keeping up with the reading, and there was a paper due back in November! I've finished a first draft, and I'll mail in the paper next week.

Tomorrow I'll spend the morning in Richmond, meeting with a Peer Group of other spiritual directors. I'm thinking of taking my reading to Swem Library next week, just to get out of the house!