Thrush Green books 4, 5 & 6 + a clean and tidy home!

I am SO GLAD and greatful that I was able to get the counter, the island, the dining room table, coffee table and my reading table all tidied up! 

Dishes are done, the dishwasher is running right now and I feel so much better because things are clean orderly and not overwhelming in terms of mess, clutter or a sense of visual chaos.  One of our lovely friends had written me a card after hearing that I'd fractured my ankle and she commiserated because she's done the same thing. One thing she said that was so true is that it isn't just that you're physically injured but that you've lost control.  Suddenly you can't do basically anything you normally did. Cleaning, cooking, getting up and grabbing something, making food, anything. Especially at the beginning.  And you have to not only depend on others. But your patterns are totally taken away. And it's most likely, especially if you're the one who takes care of the house, even when people clean in your stead They don't know where things go. So things just seem totally out of control and disorganized.  And you can't do anything about it.  You're home, which has the opportunity,  one hopes, to be your Haven of Peace becomes something you can't contribute to in any active way.

Of course, I was also very sick with bronchitis and I had very bad insomnia that first week. So I was deeply physically depleted.  I'm still doing my best to replenish my physical self.... 

I love this mural/painting/large icon of St. Peter sinking in Christ grabbing his hand and looking at him with such love as he lives some out of the water.  It's at our local church. 

Somehow I'm missing number three of the thresh green series. I'm hoping it's at my parents house. I looked up when I bought it and I'd actually mailed it there so it's possible.  

I confess my ankle is a little sore LOL but I have such relief and joy from a clean home that a little soreness is okay.  I'll be careful tomorrow. It'll be easier to keep everything up because it's tidy now.  

The difficult thing especially with the coffee table and my reading table which is what I see all the time when I'm on the couch, is that my husband couldn't clean it. There was no way because it's all my things. My books ~ that is books, notebooks, pens.... But now I can look up and it's clean and tidy in orderly.  Hopefully the ankle pain will be better overnight. Usually it is. If it isn't then I really overdid it. But I'm not going to worry. 

Well.  I'm very grateful. 

I read this today ~ St. Sofian of Antim: Homily on the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas.  This is a newly sainted monastic from Romania, St Sofian, and I like him very much.  What he's saying in this particular homily is very deep.  But he's also someone I trust and that's really special, comforting and it's good at times to read something that you know is currently to say the least beyond your pay grade LOL But isn't it Wonderful to know that being a Christian is a lifelong journey and that growing never ends.  It sure beats boredom! Not that I don't struggle with that at times. I am fallen human being.  I say that because boredom usually signifies, from what I've read, that is that there's something wrong within.  

Well back to the world of Thrush Green by Miss Read ☺️.  The last one I read the character Dotty who's very eccentric to say the least and was never good at taking care of herself finally has to be taken care of and learn that you have to take care of the body to be able to function.  This is something I'm thinking about because I don't always find it easy to do personally.  I know one thing I learned through this illness is I understand more of how physically depleting insomnia is.  I'm trying to do things to make that better.  We got green smoothies for me again and I certainly cannot fast strictly this year.  That would be the height of folly.   I'm very glad to have a priest who is my Confessor who understands that.  

We are having very warm weather this week.  But I looked at the 10-day forecast and it is to get colder again.  And so it goes! Maybe I've mentioned here. Before that there's a saying in New Jersey if you don't like the weather, wait a day 🤔🤣.  It's very variable. 😳☺️....

One of my blog friends asked for prayer: Renee.  We don't need to know what's going on to know that someone who God loves needs prayer.  So in your charity, please remember her and her family in your prayers.  

Well again I'm very thankful, I was able to go to confession and liturgy and have a clean house now.  Those are all deep blessings......  

May God have mercy on us.