Prayer Request

I post this picture as the icons here are

some of my treasured ones.

The Virgin of Pochaiv

blessed last year on the Holy Icon of Pochaiv,

the Blessed Lady Theotokos;

a small icon of St. George which is the first icon I had of St. George

that is from a lovely person in my church

who got the paper print while at Mt. Athos;

the icon of Christ that is a small replica of the one in

my spiritual father's church office;

the big one of my Patron St. Irene, that was in our church basement

at one time;

the one of Dormition that is from Dormition monastery

that I got last Christmas.

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I show these as an example of what treasures I would lose

if I lost all my possessions.

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My Mother called tonight

which is means something has happened

(I call them daily as I have the good phone plan;

thank God I have parents to call who love me).

My Mom is one of 8 children;

her older sister, my Aunt, who lives in Ontario

in the country a bit in the North,

with her husband, my Uncle,

they lost everything last night

in a fire.

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Apparently they were upstairs

smelled smoke

came to the main floor of the house and it was all aflame.

They escaped with a few clothes, my Aunt's purse and Uncle's wallet.

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I can't imagine being in the home of your retirement years

(they are upper 60s in age)

all the dishes, all the books, furniture, pictures,

everything is gone.

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Please pray for them.

The winter is long in their part of Ontario

and I fear that due to some other circumstances that

they will not be able to have a lot

by way of insurance money.

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I know we one day die and part with our belongings

and that detachment is a good thing,

spiritually speaking,

but it is hard to lose all in one night.

And so many things that were made by my Oma,

so many things that made up the memories of their past

and a house that spoke of an assurance for their future.

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I am very much like my Aunt,

with many special dishes for teas and dinners.

So if you've known me a while then you understand

a little of what they have lost

(and they had a house, I a small apartment).

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Please pray for my Aunt and Uncle;

I pray that as a house once covered them

that now prayer will cover them...

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Lord have mercy...