First Wednesday of Great Lent, 2017

I had a quiet day;

a long talk with my sister-friend, so nice, it has been months.

I was really worn out today and took it easy.

I watched a cheesy Christian film,

knitted wash clothes.

Read a bit more of Laurus. 

{so ends my #lentenkal + yarn along section of this post!}

Mr. Husband took me out for Lenten Middle Eastern food,

I had lentil soup and bread.

We also ordered some for tomorrow.

I do hope to make a soup soon, but at the same time, realized

I needed some re-coop time, and Friday is going to be a busy day....

A trip to continue working on Patrick stuff, and I hope

to go to presanctified liturgy back at home, 

afterwards... if the weather holds and our schedule can happen

as we are thinking. 

And then we went to the 3rd section of the 

Canon of St. Andrew of Crete....

Below are some sections of it that really struck me tonight,

I how repentance and seeing oneself to be a sinner in great need of repentance,

that this is always in conjunction with trusting in God's mercy

and not despairing. 

My Ottawa spiritual father once told me that I needed to keep at an

exact 50/50 balance the fact that

I am a sinner and that God loves me.

I find that the canon has the same balance,

and that it is a very deep text, 

as in we can think we are a sinner worthy of hell

but at the same moment, we do not despair of God's mercy.

And that was Wednesday of the first week of Lent.

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I do hope to get a more active routine for Lent yet,

but today I just had to do a lot of resting... 

I am weak and the culmination of the stresses of the past 2 months

got to me a bit again and I had to take a breather so that I can resume

life... thank God for His mercy and that I could be at church tonight.

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I am seeing such mercy in God's care and in that I rest.

PEI, dishcloths and PEI pottery yarn-bowl for this weeks Yarn Along

Thursday last found Mr. Husband and I in PEI.

{We returned yesterday home in late morning.}

We stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast.

The countryside was so beautiful;

we went to Cavendish one day and 

I took this picture along the way.

It was such a lovely lovely time that it is going

to take many blog posts to do it justice.

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I have some busy social time in the next days,

being that it is still summer, so 

we will see what I am able to share! 

I got this pottery yarn bowl at the 

Artisan shop at the 'Avonlea' which

is a created village with some of the buildings that

author Lucy Maud Montgomery was at.

The bowl is made by a potter in Eastern PEI.

Can you see that it says 'Yarn'? :)

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 It was a gift, the bowl, from Mr. Husband for 

my patron Saints day 

(I have two Saints and the first is St. Irene of Chrysovalantou)...

and I did not realize until returning home that

last Friday marked 10 years for me in the Orthodox church;

I was chrismated on August 8 which in 2004 was on a Sunday.

I was then, 10 years later, appropriately at a lovely Lebanese restaurant

with one of my oldest Orthodox friends who

I knew from years ago when I was in London Ontario

at library school.

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I finished my 'surprise knitting' which was 

given to a dear friend on Saturday August 9th,

so just this past Saturday, on her wedding day.

So I am not yet showing this

as she is now on her honeymoon and has not yet

opened that gift.

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So coming soon to a yarn along near year you :)

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I have finished various dish clothes 

(latest one in the yarn bowl above)

and I am re-reading Anne of Green Gables,

of course...

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What are you reading and creating?

Do join us!

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