Sunday ~ Slow and Steady

I slept horribly for the first part of last night;

we were so overcome, thinking that our elderly Warden 

friend in our far-away church was failing to the degree of 

dying soon... 

we found out this afternoon that we misunderstood, 

though it is still not good at all... and we don't have any 

time frame in advance to know what to expect...

We had hoped to see him but the roads were icy,

icy rain, slick in places, dark and cold.

So we stayed home.

We finished the Chicken Soup.

I still think it was one of the best Chicken Noodle Soups I've ever had.

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Mr Husband is going to NYC tomorrow for work + doctor's appointments.

All prayers welcome for this.

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I started to take everything down from Christmas.

40 days of Christmas, Candlemas, is this Wednesday.

We went to liturgy on the new calendar for this,

as we are pretty sure we can't come for it this year

because of Mr Husband's illness of this past going on 6 weeks.

He's looking a lot better and we are hopeful.

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Next Sunday is Meatfare Sunday already!!

(i.e. that is the last day you have meat other than fish for

all of Great Lent, unless health is poor, etc).

I hope to learn to make a good mushroom soup broth base

for some veggie soups - any suggestions, please let me know!

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I am getting a food delivery of a premade meat dish tomorrow 

plus some more soup broth that I hope to get into Mr Husband this week.

We are hoping he does not relapse...

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The Gospel reading for tomorrow is Christ coming into Bethany

with the children and others singing

Hosanna in the Highest! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

and it struck me how this too is foreshadowing Palm Sunday, 

the days before Holy Week and that while we are just beginning to gear up for

Great Lent now, the taste of Pascha and the end is already in sight,

even though Great Lent can seem very long. 

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I am so glad for all the good in our lives,

for that delicious Chicken Soup I made,

for the cups of tea I had and that Mr Husband and I 

watched another Walton's episode tonight.

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While this has been a hard time - missing Christmas, Theophany,

Mr Husband being so sick, this is also a time that I think I will always

treasure, many days with Mr Husband, my best friend,

many good talks this past week, many good meals,

pots and pots of tea and it was just so nice to have him around.

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I can tell I am internally struggling with the transition of him going back to work,

DV and missing him being here all the time.  

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But we will do our best and be thankful.

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I am hoping to go to NYC this Wednesday with a friend and her Mother,

if it works out.  Tomorrow is busy with cleaning and later food delivery.

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Good news is that our local retired church Warden, not the one who is

in elder-care 24x7 but the one who lost his apartment - 

well, he found a new one and it is much better than his old one! 

So that's really wonderful!

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Everyone goes through so many trials.

May God uphold and save us all!