Tuesday Mid-November - white skies with sun

Can't tell you how good it always feels

to say "hello" here.

Well.

Today was another try to recover day.

Strangest cold - fairly good during the day

bad at night

or vice versa.

However:

Tomorrow I am GETTING OUT OF THE HOUSE.

Can you tell I am excited?

After being house-bound for days on end, I'm sure you understand.

Even Cleo understands :)

So tomorrow I will try to do another step in job hunting

locally.

Great talk with my Mom today

about how we don't always understand God's plan or His timing.

And so often His timing is rather 11th hourish.

Fun picture from last August

when I was seeing the the Dale C. exhibit.

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I am ignoring the fact that I just sneezed again.

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My Mom and I have also been talking about

the fact that Christmas is just over a month away

and I don't have the money to go home

for Christmas.

Well.

I am trying to take all this in stride;

including the fact that I would be breaking my tradition of being at

my beloved monastery for New Years;

my family may come in January to Canada.

I knew all along that when I went home in August

that it may be my Christmas

visit for this year and I did get to go to the monastery

during this time...

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Been thinking about these verses today, from Psalm 37 (NKJV)

25 I have been young, and now am old;
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
Nor his descendants begging bread.
39 But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD;
He is their strength in the time of trouble.
40 And the LORD shall help them and deliver them;
He shall deliver them from the wicked,
And save them,
Because they trust in Him.

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Jodie Anna gave us a real treat today in providing this song:

Nana Peradze singing "Kyrie Eleison" by Patriarch Ilia II

Thank you, my friend

for a song that seems to simultaneously capture

the prayer for mercy

deep beauty

and the sense of all that is beautiful and hoped for.

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May God show us the desires of our hearts

and may Christ fill them.