This was the title of a song when I was a young woman, back in the 1960s. I hear it a lot on the channel guide that my local cable company puts up — they play a lot of “elevator music,” which is actually quite relaxing, when you’ve had it up to Here with ads [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Is That All There Is?
Posted in My Life in Christ, Orthodox Christianity, spiritual warfare on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Family Affairs
Posted in News from the World of Transportation, family on April 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As the Buddhists say, “After ecstasy, the laundry.” We all know that feeling. I’m sure I’ve blogged about this before, but it bears repeating: The story told by Kathleen Norris (in, I think, The Cloister Walk, though it may have been in The Quotidian Mysteries) about the woman who said she was going to have [...]
Holy Week
Posted in My Life in Christ, Orthodox Christianity, spiritual warfare on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It occurred to me last night, while at Bridegroom Matins, that one of the very nicest things about the Orthodox Church is Holy Week. As most of you know, in the West the 40 days of Lent begin on Ash Wednesday and end on Holy Saturday at noon. In Orthodoxy, again as most of you [...]
Thanks…
Posted in My Life in Christ, Orthodox Christianity, family, spiritual warfare on April 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
…to all who responded to my last post. As so many of you noted, all we can do is pray for our children, and hope that they figure it out before it’s too late. Meanwhile, our daughter’s birthday is coming up, and my husband doesn’t want me to send her anything, not even a card. [...]
