First Saturday of Great Lent

Earlier this week we had

almost blizzard like conditions.

Today is very windy.

Have to walk to vespers soon...

I love Lent so much;

it is such a special time to be

with my church family.

*

This whole leaving my church family

is hard; though

life without Orthoman

would be worse...

and I know I am excited

just that I can't imagine leaving the

warm confines of my life here.

*

Moving and preparing for marriage

to me is likened to

what an older Christian man I knew

in my twenties used to talk about

in terms of heaven:

we can't imagine it,

just like a baby cannot imagine

life outside of his or her Mother's womb.

Preparing for marriage

seems like something that is such

a revolution of one's life

that it is likened

to being born.

This picture summarizes my life right now.
Embroidered cloth from the
Kiev Lavra;
Wedding pictures of my sister's wedding
(we talked today about wedding stuff
via video chat);
phone headset that I often use for
talking on the phone;
journal, stapler, other paper
and candles.
Yep,
that about sums it up.