Tuesday (Our Lady of Walsingham)

Usual start to a weekday workday morning.
Wrestled heavily with my homiletical message statement for Proper 24 (October 13 in Rantoul), ending up with a developed outline that will provide the basis for a rough draft next week.
Took a brief walk, about six blocks, just to decompress. (much as I might have were I in the office).
Dealt with a lingering financial-administrative diocesan issue.
Lunch from a nearby taqueria, eaten at home.
Digested an unanticipated email about a serious pastoral-administrative issue. Plotted further actions.
Substantive phone conversation with a priest who is interested in exploring deployment in the diocese.
Read and replied to a stack of Ember Day letters from our postulants and candidates for Holy Orders.
Took the developed outline of my address to synod next month and turned it into a rough draft. It will need some refinement, but it’s essentially finished.
Evening Prayer in our domestic chapel.