Friday, April 18, 2025

For those so inclined, The Daily Office, Morning Prayer Good Friday

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I woke after nine or ten hours of sound sleep.

The weather forecast for Easter Sunday is rain.

Another happy number.👍

I don't have a lot of free time today. Dr Ricky is coming for physical therapy around 1030hrs. I still hope to make it to stations of the cross at church at noon and then I'm scheduled to bring Wuilliam to church for Good Friday payers at 1500hrs. I didn't make it to Staions of the Cross, but was able to bring William to the afternoon service.There was a veneration of the cross opportunity which I passed on this year. and attendees wre able to self commune from the reserved sacrament. I stayed in the pew and let Fr. Travis bring the Baptist Bread tto me. I call it that when he replaces the traditional wafer with home baked bread ( I guess it's a Baptist thing).
I "dragged ass" all day as the sound sleep I got came only after a three hour phone call from Nathan, a friend from my life in Columbus, GA. He had to vent and, surprisingly, I do know when to keep my opinions and advice to myself and listen. He came home from work to find his significant other had taken all his clothes, some personal items and left him. Nathan is not the type man who cries (out loud) so the call was very disturbing. Also very diisturbing is how he got my cell phone number. The last time we talked I called him on the land line I had when I first moved to Texas to let him know I had moved. He and Kevin had moved to Florida in the 1980s after their ETS from the army. In 1993 they were "married"(before it was legal). I tol Nate I'd be his best man, but was unable to attend because it was at the same time my mom died and I had to meet obligations in Massa chusetts.