This is what is written on my wrist today.  No, I'm not starting up another Lenten Journey, though considering the circumstances, maybe I SHOULD!  I sure learned a lot during that 40-days, and I could certainly stand to learn some more!...

  I’m a Godmother! It's my first time at being a Godmother, so I am both honored and humbled to have been asked. A dear friend of mine and her husband were received into the Church through Baptism on Holy Satu...

Christ is Risen! I have to tell you, one of my favorite services of the whole liturgical year is the service on Holy Saturday morning. For us it is a joyous occasion and looks forward with anticipation to that night when...

by miss hibiscusI didn't give up anything for Lent this year.I'm not strict about Lent rituals every year; if there is something obvious that I need to give up in my life, then I'll give it up for Lent.  If there isn't, then I don't....

Wow, did I miss lent? I think it was more talked-about last year, or something.I'll just say...I gave up red meat and poultry, like traditional lentors.Kind of a cop-out, I admit.UCLA was beautiful.I remember the first, ...

I'm gradually getting moved into the new kitchen!! Last night I made supper on the stove in the new spot next to the glass door,took food out of the refrigerator to the left of the stove on the north wall of the house,ad...

Notes from my pastor's Lent sermon I was looking through today. I've been feeling horribly lonely lately. Not deprived of God - on the contrary, I think God is drawing me too him, or at least giving me a hunger for the B...

I am probably not thankful enough for the community in which I live. We have a pretty active Orthodox community here which has many Pan-Orthodox celebrations thoughout the year. All thoughout Great Lent we have Pan-Ortho...

Like I said before - I decided I'd write up a few of the lines that provoked a lot of thought, particularly spoke to me, or inspired me deeply from the books that I read for my Lenten Reflections this Lent. These ar...

He was taken in the nightThey came without any warningNo time to hide or fightThey came like bees aswarmingThe questions start to flyWill he break or will he defy?Can he withstand the worst that is to come?A child in a m...