dual personalities

Monday was a crazy day; Mondays usually are, right?

But I smiled whenever I thought of the wee laddie starting to play soccer.

Today on the Episcopal calendar of saints we recognize the Rev. James Chisholm and his selfless example during an aggressive epidemic of Yellow Fever which ravaged Portsmouth, Virginia in 1855.

Many of the wealthy residents—including physicians and clergy—fled, leaving many citizens of Portsmouth without medical care, even without food and clean water.  The Reverend James Chisholm, first rector of St. John’s, sent his sons away (his wife having died 7 months earlier) but remained in Portsmouth to care for the poor and the sick.  Exhausted by his efforts, Chisholm contracted Yellow Fever and died in the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. 

Merciful God, who didst call thy priest James Chisholm to sacrifice his life while working amid great suffering and death: Help us, like him, to live by the faith we profess, following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ our Lord; who with the Father and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen.

These movies –“Four diverting, optimistic and cool retro classics from Hollywood’s Golden Age”–look like good ones to check out. I am definitely going to find the Mr. Belvedere movie.

I thought this article made some good points.

And, hello, who wants to try these?! Well, maybe without the vodka, thank you.

Happy Tuesday!

*”We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.” (2 Corinthians 4:8-9)