Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Tuesday, 1 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
Happy New Year to everyone! (Civil calendar, that is. The Church new year is on 1 September).
We pulled back in to our home yesterday evening about 6pm. We’d split the return journey in two, stopping overnight just west of St Louis in Fenton, MO. It was a bonus: we got the honeymoon [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life, Orthodoxy on Monday, 10 December 2007 | 3 Comments »
And Father Seraphim continued: “When the Spirit of God comes down to man and overshadows him with the fullness of His inspiration, then the human soul overflows with unspeakable joy, for the Spirit of God fills with joy whatever He touches. This is that joy of which the Lord speaks in His Gospel: A woman [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Monday, 3 December 2007 | 1 Comment »
“Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I have been deceived.” (Jeremiah 20:7)
The Latin is more wiley, seduxisti me, “Thou has seduced me.” Jeremiah, of course, is complaining that the Lord’s call on his life is a bitter one and full of sorrows. His prophesying in the name of God is not turning, [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life, Prayer on Friday, 30 November 2007 | 3 Comments »
I want to thank every one who has commented on previous posts or emailed me regarding the present end to my PhD pursuits. Your words have been an encouragement beyond the simple need.
I have been particularly mindful of the comments that an online radio host, whom I greatly respect, has left, as they have paralleled [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 | 5 Comments »
I can tell you, this present loss of my PhD program is unpleasant. But if I believe what I’ve said just a few posts before, this, too, is God’s Providence.
But what does that mean? And now what?
This PhD has lived in me, from the time of an idea and a desire, since I [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Monday, 26 November 2007 | 5 Comments »
As anticipated, the leave of absence was only a long shot to cover the last two academic years (not including the present), with the expectation that I would achieve reinstatement by this spring (i.e., January). That last is not going to happen. So the first becomes a moot point.
Fifty-one hours of PhD studies, on the [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Saturday, 24 November 2007 | No Comments »
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Friday, 23 November 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday was a very nice day. We were able to spend the day with the Rhodes’ from our parish. The girls love Janice and Michael and their daughter Kelsie. When the time comes, we’ve asked them to be godparents for our daughters. We had hoped to include our subdeacon’s family, who [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Wednesday, 21 November 2007 | 4 Comments »
A short while ago I wrote to my graduate program director to tell him that I would not be continuing with my PhD program.
There are a lot of complex issues involved, financial, changing life circumstances, my naivete and subsequent disappointment with academia, among other things.
I have been unfunded my entire program (being fair to middlin’ [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Tuesday, 20 November 2007 | 5 Comments »
A little blast from the 80s past. Lyrics below the jump.
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Friday, 21 September 2007 | 6 Comments »
Last year’s natal day meditation was a bit too sober and grim, though not unjustifiably so. A lot has happened in the intervening twelve months. Some of it tragic and difficult. But most of it good, and true, and beautiful and joyous.
Shortly after my meditation, we began the successful start of a [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Thursday, 8 March 2007 | No Comments »
Anna and I cut up our last credit card last year. We have no credit cards. We’ve got our Visa debit card that connects to our checking account, and we do our non-written-check transactions with it. But we still get those pre-screened credit card offers. Oy. Do we get the offers. One day last week [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Monday, 22 January 2007 | 1 Comment »
Making coffee in the semi-dark so as not to arouse the rest of the household? Coffee measuring spoon brush against your white dress shirt leaving little brown dusty trails? Don’t have a clean dress shirt? Don’t have time to launder a new one?
Then pick up the lint roller with the sticky tape [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Friday, 15 December 2006 | 4 Comments »
We are, say the saints, to see suffering as both the just consequence of our personal sins, and the boundless mercy of our God who in his compassion and love for us, seeks our healing and transformation. Such difficult measures are needed, we are told, because the disease runs very, very deep and the [...]
Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Thursday, 7 December 2006 | No Comments »
In the patristic writings, “pain of heart” generally refers to an elemental inward suffering, the bearing of an interior cross while following Jesus Christ, and a spirit broken in contrition. “Suffering,” Fr. Seraphim stated, “is the reality of the human condition and the beginning of the true spiritual life.” From Archbishop John, who [...]
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