5 - for - 5

Five for Five Meme

Inspired from Mimi and also done by Alana

5 things I was doing five years ago

1. Shelving books at a public library

2. Preparing to do my Masters in Library and Information Science

3. Living at home in Michigan

4. I was chrismated almost 5 years ago exactly (August 8th)

5. I met many wonderful Orthodox friends - It broke my heart to leave BC

and my first Orthodox Church -

but God in His wisdom had me chrismated in the town where I grew up.

Now when ever I go home to family, I also go home to another church family

and my Godmother.

But it was not easy to leave BC and I barely talked for

the first 3 days after leaving.

5 things on my to do list:

1. apply for another job

2. go to church tomorrow (Thank God)

3. go to a friends house

4. wash my dishes, again

5. read another chapter in The Brothers Karamazov

5 things I would do with a million dollars:

1. I better remember to tithe

2. buy an apartment with a room for a library

3. invest for my future and for my family

4. pay off my school loans

5. get spiritual counsel for all of the above points

5 places I have lived:

1. West Michigan

2. Connecticut

3. Langley, Fort Langley and Walnut Grove (all in Beautiful BC)

4. London Ontario

5. Ottawa

5 things I want to be doing in 5 years:

1. Have a stable job that I enjoy

2. Um, still wish I could get married, like so many wish. But

God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

3. I hope Cleo will still be alive and well - she will be 11

4. Asking for God's mercy and going to an Orthodox Church

5. Visiting monasteries

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I also hope to continue to blog in a meaningful way

and to continue taking pictures.

I feel so alive when I am taking pictures;

being in the rain on my balcony last night made me almost

dizzy with the joy of seeing the rain;

taking pictures for me is to live

within the beauty

found in the present moment.