A lovely video ~ film producer and actor on Mt Athos

Life is busy right now!

Soon I will be going to NYC.

I watched a lovely video yesterday,

full of hope and the love of God. 

It's well done and is called

"Jonathan Jackson & Norris Chumley: A conversation about God."

I hope you enjoy it as I have! 

Word for the year: Love

RW, Victoria and David

have all chosen words for the year.

All very good words:

Deliberate, Trust and Professional.

This year I think my word needs to be

Love.

God's love for us all

and

Love of God and of others.

A holy hieromonk told me,

you cannot save others but must love them and so save yourself.

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I have a long way to go to get to Love

but

this is where I must go.

Icon Light

I love St. John of Kronstadt.

I got this icon over Christmas and New Years holidays when

I was at the monastery.

My lampada, at my old apartment,

was lit in front of a paper copy

of this icon.

When I got the icon of Rublev's Trinity,

the lampada became the light for the icon of the Holy Trinity.

Finally, this past weekend, I had time to put up my small shelf

and now have a light by St. John of Kronstadt again.

When ever I enter this room, I am deeply encouraged to see

the bright light by St. John.

Glory to God!

God's love

Lots of people, understandably, like Fr. Stephen Freeman's blog. I am one of them. In case you do not normally read him, may I recommend his new post Loving an Angry God.

Fr. Stephen places a lot of importance on understanding the love of God. This is an area I have a lot to learn more about.

I have known for years that if I can learn to live in the reality of God's love, I would live a radically different life.

I pray that I am learning and will learn this. I am young and inward growth takes a lot of time. Thank God then for the gift of now, the time we have.