Feast of the Annunciation

What a different feast day of the Annunciation!

(The day that Jesus' Mother is told she will bear a child, Christ the Lord.)

We are all in such a strange space;

between denial I think and acceptance;

getting used to our situation in lockdown but our hearts ache

for the life we had before.

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Please keep praying for my sister-friend; she and her family really need our prayers;

she has not had the baby yet but there are other things that were

unexpected and worrisome outside of the baby to be born. 

Please please pray.

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I had a really quite terrible sleep last night.

I am exhausted physically and emotionally to say the least.

Today marks exactly 4 weeks since my Husband began working from home

and the weekend will be one month since we were last in church, at a

restaurant and at a store, other than a corner store.

And it's been since the beginning of March since stores started having

empty shelves.  I hope I can continue to get grocery delivery

as we really don't want to be at any stores right now.

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I am getting, DV, a big grocery delivery this Thursday.

Lots of things for Pascha and the 40 days of Pascha/Easter.

Cheese! Meat! 

But I am also really excited about things in the order like finding

vegetable oil, tortilla chips, raisins, oatmeal.

I feel super blessed.  

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I never know if I will get a grocery delivery for the next week...

so I got a lot of things now... the meat will wait for us in the freezer... 

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Lord have mercy on us all!

And provide for us!

And protect heal and comfort us!