St. Basil's Day

 

(old picture I took at the Greek
monastery).
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Today is St. Basil's Day!
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I got this feast twice as I was at
Holy Dormition for this day
in early January
with Mr. Husband.
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I am often there on St. Basil's day
and find it a very wonderful day indeed.
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I am reading slowly
Madeleine L'Engle's book
ring of endless light
and it is about loss, letting go, death.
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Thank God,
I have not had to grieve those lost by death
in the last months.
However,
I am in the process of letting go in someways
of my beloved Ottawa.
I return for 1 week this Thursday,
for Theophany,
as planned before Mr. Husband and I's wedding.
I told everyone I would be back for Theophany.
Most of my Orthodox life up to this time
has been in Ottawa
and all of my professional librarian life.
I did a lot of growing there
and had a real home there and a city
I loved and love very much.
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So when I read about the main character
Vicky,
dealing with growing up and the soon
loss of her Grandfather to cancer
and all of her processing...
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I found reading this to be helpful.
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A monastic told me months ago that I am not
leaving my Ottawa church family
but extending my church family
to include more people...
that I am on a progression in this;
not a decrease but an increase.
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And so it is.
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I am still a bit congested though the main
part of my sinus cold is over.
I fly God-willing in two days
to Ottawa.
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Yesterday now was St. Basil's Day
(things interrupted me from finishing the post)
and Mr. Husband and I got a
wonderful phone call yesterday!
A new nephew was born!
He's not Orthodox but I do find it
really wonderful that he was born
on St. Basil's Day to
wonderful Christian parents!