Life has a lot of trying and trying again.
This picture (above) is due to encouragement to a friend who
I sadly rarely see but always feel seen by.
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Sometimes it's hard to keep moving.
I am deep in a long term writing project and have hit
some significant roadblocks. Trying to leave them
(the road blocks) behind
and focus on something different is not an easy thing to do.
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Today I had some simple but real successes:
1. I was tired but kept going, which I knew was what I needed to do
2. I got some laundry done (the chore, along with dishes that never ends)
3. I walked about 2.5 miles today
4. I managed to call my Grandma two weeks in a row (my ability to
keep doing what I used to do before I got really sick has been lessened)
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Tomorrow my goal is to go to NYC and read more of a book for
research for my long term writing project,
possibly go to breakfast with my Husband
and renew my membership at the MET Museum.
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I, like many, especially who are Orthodox, have had our
hearts rended in pain over the suffering of
this Monastery and this new article gave me
consolation. I will say one thing:
there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1)
and I refuse to go into any thing remotely close to an
argument over the suffering that these Monastics have endured.
Only God knows the future and why everything that happens, happens.
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I have been asking God for help having a thankful heart.
A thankful heart is a lighter heart and I have miles to go on this.
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I read this book last week.
It was really good.
I feel like I need to surrender more to God
and my path is to do what I have been doing:
asking God to give me a thankful heart,
for everything.
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The book is by the last woman who served and cared for
Corrie ten Boom in her last 7 years of life.
A really special picture of Corrie, whose books I have loved
since I was 13 or so, and of a woman learning to let God lead her
and to give up her own ideas and realizing that
God's plan for her life is best.
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A lovely young woman at one of my churches, who I have had the
prieveldge of seeing grow up, and I had a really good talk
because years ago I had broke my ankle and now she is suffering
a similar but different situation.
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How beautiful when one's pain can be used years later to
relate to another person and encourage them.
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I know I must grow in this.
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May God have mercy on us!
