Awake much earlier than I needed to be this morning, feeling overwhelmed with all I need to do. So I made the coffee and spent an hour reading through Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day. Dorothy Day lived one of the most chaotically active lives of Christian discipleship in history, and her diary entries reflect that. But she also writes about her constant effort to re-center in God's presence and love and in an awareness of the daily blessings that come to us, so that a chaotically busy Christian disciple can remember exactly why s/he's got so much to do!

It was raining (again!) when I first got up. So I listened for the rain to let up, and then went out to get the newspapers. Each morning I am amazed at how consistent is the performance of our New York Times delivery person. Every morning, I find the Times in the ditch, less than three feet from the edge of the driveway. In other words, the delivery person nearly, almost gets the paper on the driveway surface, every morning!

Oh well. At least I know exactly where in the ditch I'll find the paper when I go out to get it.