Jen and I decided to combine our blogs. You can now follow me (and Jen) at our new blog Our Prairie Ashram. You can go over there and read more about what precipitated this change. Also, be sure to subscribe to our new Tumblr blog, Down On The Ashram, which will have poems, prayers, and meanderings.

Let your continual mercy, O Lord, cleanse and defend your
Church; and, because it cannot continue in safety without
your help, protect and govern it always by your goodness;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.