We are traveling today! We are going to Washington, D.C. to see our daughter and her husband for the first time since they moved in May of last year. We are so excited. It is the longest I have gone without seeing our daughter, the longest she's been away. But she is married now and… Continue reading Traveling Prayer
In the 4 weeks leading up to Great Lent the lectionary readings of the Gospel have us walking with Mark and Luke through the Passion of Christ. We read about the preparation of Passover in the upper room, the Triumphant Entry on a foal, the betrayal. We walk with Jesus through his final week. The… Continue reading Walking with Christ
On this Letter Writing Wednesday I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what I just sent to the printer this morning. These are all going to be cards or prints! And there are more not shown here. We have something new this year, Lenten Encouragement cards! Can you guess which ones? Pascha cards!… Continue reading Off to the Printer
This past Sunday we read Luke 15:11-32, the parable of the Prodigal Son. Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.And not many days after, the younger… Continue reading Prodigal Son
Chapter Two of Time and Despondency runs very deep! The title of the chapter bears the same title as the book, Time and Despondency. This chapter is all about time. The chapter opens with two quotes that I really love and these two quotes represent the two things I learned most about in this chapter:… Continue reading Chapter Two
Today in hymns for the Resurrection, the weekly reminder that Christ is risen!, we sing so many beautiful hymns it is hard to choose just one. In November 2019 I shared some stichera hymns of the Resurrection tone 5. This one we sang last night... I remember this photo well. It was a crisp, sunny… Continue reading Praise and Worship the Word
Earlier this week I read the Psalm 67 (66 in the Psalter According to the Seventy-my favorite translation!). God be gracious unto us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us and have mercy on us, that we may know upon the earth Thy way, among all the nations Thy salvation. Let… Continue reading God Be Gracious Unto Us
It has been about just over a year since I first wrote about the prayers of the Akathist Hymn to Almight God for Help in Times of Trouble. And that short little sentence above, that short little prayer is one of my favorite pivot prayers! I've been revisiting it lately. Not because I'm in any… Continue reading Prayers
Have you ever read Reader’s Digest? I grew up reading it and would mostly read the very short and funny real-life stories in the monthly columns titled All in a Day’s Work, Life in These United States, Laugh Lines, Laughter, the Best Medicine, and Humor in Uniform. As a kid I love it. I haven’t… Continue reading A Thank You Year
On Sunday, as I mentioned then, we in the Orthodox Church found ourselves on what we call the Publican and the Pharisee Sunday. Each year as we prepare for Great Lent, three weeks prior to its start, we are reminded of this parable. “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee… Continue reading Publican and the Pharisee
