Another Day Closer to Pascha

Our days sure can be a mix of sunshine and cloud!

I know many of us are really battered

and just wishing for Lent to end.

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Lent can really have a lot of unexpected trials;

if not outward, there are often (or also) many

inward trails to be navigated.

We find ourselves at the end feeling that we did not even begin;

indeed, St. Silouan, at the end of his life, said he had not even begun

to gain the needed humility...

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Indeed,

I know I have done so little,

have barely been able to hold to any of what I hoped to do.

Yet,

or, even so,

I feel that I am being taught that

God is with me

God is with us

God will not leave us

we are not alone

we are not abandoned

God in the Holy Trinity

The Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ

and all the Saints

and all of God's Angels

are with us

are praying for us

and God is doing everything He can to save us;

a friend once told me,

God is more interested in saving us than we are wanting to be saved.

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Pascha is near!

Holy Week is calling us!

Let us pray that God will be merciful

and clothe us in white

and that we can live more in His eternal Pascha

of which we soon will be in.

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May the Good Lord protect us as we go through

the rest of this last week of Lent

and into Palm Sunday

and

Holy Week.