In London!

Rebecca and Mark made it to London!

They are praying that their flights out

from London tomorrow

will go as scheduled.

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Originally they were to do the whole trip tomorrow

but their flight into London from Bucharest was

cancelled.

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Please pray that they can come tomorrow!

I thank God they have at least made it to London today!

I rarely get to see birds from my apartment in Ottawa.

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This morning is a beautiful morning at my parent's house!

In other news,

yesterday afternoon I had an unexpected phone call

on my cell phone.

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I had an impromptu interview for a good librarian job in Ottawa

that I applied for in early November!

Considering the interview was totally unexpected,

I did fairly well.

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They said they would be interviewing in early January

and if I did not hear from them by mid-January

to give them a call.

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So another thing to hope and pray for!

This is a job in my field, in Ottawa,

the city I love...

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Meanwhile, I hope that Rebecca and Mark can be here

for Christmas!!

The Extreme Humility of Christ

The Word who had created all and given life to all

accepted death at the hands of His creation-

a greater humility than this cannot be conceived of.

--Mother Alexandra

Essay from 1980, "The Call"

republished in Vol 23 No 1 Pascha 1991 of "Life Transfigured"

from The Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration, Ellwood City.

Not Sure

Like the Squirrel? I talked to it while I took this picture.

Made me think of MamaJuliana who recently took a

similar picture.

So I realized this morning that I am not sure about the possible

part time job.

If I take it, it will give me enough money to live on

but not much to pay school loans on.

It will last until March.

Here's my concern:

If I take this job I will learn French part time and have less time to really devote to it.

At the end job the job, I will have more work experience,

a possible foot in a door for work,

and more on my resume.

BUT: my real desire was to learn French so that I would not be stuck in the position of

taking the slender pickings of English-only jobs

instead of having a chance at many more jobs in Ottawa that are bilingual.

And I am worried that I will be stuck in a cycle of catch when catch can

of job -agency jobs, which even many of these are bilingual.

(My sister took this picture, it reminds her of God).

I do not know if God will show me outright what to do,

but if peace internally is part of an indication,

I am not fully at peace about this possibility.

However it is hard to discern what to think.

Am I not at peace because of the unexpectedness of it

or because it is not the right way to go?

I pray that God will give me wisdom

if the job is offered to me.

Thank God that the real answers are already here.

I must look to the Christ-child born to us to die to save us.

Thank you so much for all your prayers for me -

I sure did not know when I was younger that life would be so unclear!

Yet the Lord is good to us and in this and in Him I must rejoice.