Thought we could all use a taste of summer

Just look at that yellow colour...

Winter sure can be a bit of a slog,

can it not?

Lots of slush on the sidewalks here

snow melting into puddles upon puddles

all to be avoided

when walking to church.

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I am helping a friend with her paper

for school and am thrilled to be

helping her

in her very significant endeavour.

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Um, I can feel Lent is coming;

I love Lent for it's focus

for being in church more

for standing in church with my spiritual father

praying the Canon of St. Andrew of Crete

and going to the presanctified liturgies on Fridays.

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Lent is also a time of great temptation

and for me often a time of great personal

loss or pain.

So as much as I long for lent,

being with my church family more,

focusing my life,

giving what Fr. Thomas Hopko calls

our tithe to the church,

the tithe of the year

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I think I need to listen/read that podcast again

(on the tithe of the year).

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Noah continues to struggle.

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So many need our prayers...

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May God be our help and protection.