Soup

Here's the soup!

My slow cooker is not new,

as you can tell!

Works great though.

It tasted pretty good;

needed a bit of salt and pepper;

would be yummy pureed

but I don't want to bother with more work!

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Sadly, though, I was not able to fully enjoy this new

fun fall soup

as I have come down with some sort of flu-like sickness.

No fun!

Been resting all day and trying not to worry about

the fact that I was not able to do much job searching.

God is with us.

Tuesday Evening

My dear friend also got this icon for me

in Kiev

at a smaller monastery.

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I had been wanting one of St. Seraphim of Sarov for some time.

I can see it when I wake in the morning

and the deep shock of St. Seraphim's white cassock

comforts me...

reminding me that

Christ is Risen.

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I talked to my Grandma tonight!

The surgery went well,

the doctor was pleased and there were no

concerns during the surgery itself.

Thank God.

Today was not a fully easy day for her

and the days to come will be with some pain.

Please pray for her again if you can...

Her words,

"This is for a purpose" and that

"healing takes time" really struck me...

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My Grandma is such a testimony to faith in God

and to prayer;

she assured me that she felt all the prayers...

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Today I rested even more

as I may be coming down with a head cold.

Chicken soup, oatmeal, mugs and mugs of tea...

and some lemon, eggs and bananas.

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I am seeking to concentrate on merely being quiet

and trying to be peaceful and mindful that

God is with me,

God is with us,

we must take courage.

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Thanks to everyone for the encouragement via the comments

given to my last post

as I seek to take courage regardless

of the future.

I am so blessed by each of you.

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God is with us, let us be quieted and at rest.

Ponderings

Talking with a woman in church,

last week,

about the Saints and she commented about the

Cross within the life of the Saints being accepted,

surrendered to, martyred and resurrected;

the renunciation of life for crucifixion with Christ.

How this was the pattern of Christian life.

It really struck me.

We are so blessed by beauty

flowers made by God

yet some of the monks in Scetis

in the book

sayings of the desert fathers

never looked around them

and looked only to God.

I was reading in Matthew earlier this week

narrow is the way and few find it.

How much we need to be in church

pray

and seek God's mercy.

Sometimes it is so easy to forget that the path to God

and to His Kingdom

is narrow and few find it.

We must not assume so easily that was are there,

we must seek God's mercy

and ask Him

to show the way...

all the while trusting on His mercy that if we

seek Him, we will find Him...

He will take us to Himself,

His House with many rooms;

narrow is the way and few find it;

May we look to God

and pray for mercy

all our days...