from our walk

Ah God, You with the Maker's eye,
can tell if all that's feared is real,
and see if life is more than what
we suffer, dread, despise and feel.
If some by faith no longer stand
nor hear the truth Your voice intones,
stretch out Your hand to help Your folk
from stumbling blocks to stepping stones.
The next day I got bacon for breakfast and not only that I got the bacon fat poured on my kibble. Boy did that taste really good. Grandpere is a good cook. SHE and Grandmere went to church and I stayed home with Grandpere, who was really nice to me.
It was so much fun to meet the esteemed doyen of bloggers, Grandmere Mimi and her very dear husband Grandpere.
‘You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.Am I the only person who detects a bit of dissonance here? Mind you, I don't care about being banned from SF, because I registered only recently to comment about the election in the Diocese of Louisiana of Bishop-elect Morris Thompson, who was being dissed over there. I left a couple of comments saying something to the effect that we could give Bishop Thompson a chance, pray for him, that the Diocese of Louisiana is not in imminent danger of death, and that's it, after which Sarah Hey labeled me a "known raving revisionist".
The Rev. Canon Virginia "Ginny" Doctor, Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of Alaska and assisting vicar at St. James Mission in Tanana, Alaska
The Very Rev. Mark Lattime, Rector, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Diocese of Rochester, Geneseo, NY
The Very Rev. Timothy W. Sexton, Provost/Canon Administrator, Cathedral Church of St. Andrew, Honolulu, HI
The Rev. Suzanne Elizabeth Watson, Christ and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Westport, CT
We arrived at Rievaulx Abbey. Oh my! What a beautiful place. Mrs MP and I toured the Abbey while MP exercised the collies. What a holy place. I could sense the presence of many saints from the past who prayed there, and the prayers seemed to linger in the abbey. I thought of our blog friend Prior Aelred of St. Gregory's Abbey, because his namesake was abbot of Rievaulx Abbey.