Saturday: Adding Beauty, Seeing Sun and Blue Skies

Saturday, what a busy day you are.

Laundry, dishes, hanging up plates,

a walk in brisk cold air with blue skies, still

a damp cold... 

vespers tonight.

Unlike Christians in the Catholic or Protestant Western traditions,

our calendar is quite divergent this year and we have

yet to begin Lent,

we have 3 more weeks or is it 4? March 15 is the beginning of our Lent,

regardless of how many weeks we have left.  I think 3, yes, it is 3,

I just checked.

So this week is fast-free week, meaning we can have

meat and dairy all week.

Then a normal week of fasting/feasting,

meaning Wednesday and Friday are fast days, then that Sunday

is the last day for meat and the next week is devoted to dairy

and fish as desired and then the fast begins.

I always dread the fast and then am relieved when it starts. 

I can tell you one thing, I join the ranks of millions who are 

just tired out these days.

My eyes are tired easily (I hope they don't get too much worse,

as that often means they are).  I am tired more easily.

I think so many of us are tired, with winter's cold, pandemic isolation

and the changes in our lives because of the pandemic.

And yet, so much to be thankful for.

I listened to more of Victtoria Cottage by DE Stevenson.

I had good food to eat and take out for dinner.

I was able to go to church.

And tomorrow we hope to go again.

And so it goes... 

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Lord help us and preserve us!