oh, ok - no snow!!!!!! was so happy to wake up to clear skies and green grass!

God then is infinite and incomprehensible and all that is comprehensible about Him is His infinity and incomprehensibility. But all that we can affirm concerning God does not shew forth God's nature, but only the qualities of His nature. For when you speak of Him as goog and just and wise and so forth, you do not tell God's nature but only the ( Read more... )

baked 150 cookies today (from scratch mind ya) for the dinner after church tomorrow in honor of his grace bishop antoun and the (by then ordained) deacon david noetic_toe. i'm so excited for david and for our church. i guess having more than one cookie sheet would have made things go a bit faster. i even missed vespers cuz i was still baking ( Read more... )

well, the friend who went with me to greece, finally gave me a cd full of pics. so i thought i would share them - her photography skills came in handy

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this is part of a talk that fr. seraphim (rose) gave in 1979 entitled Orthodoxy in AmericaBound up with this is a disease of today's Orthodox Christians which can be deadly: the "correctness disease." In a way this is a natural temptation to anyone who has just awakened to Christian faith and to spiritual life -- the more one finds out about ( Read more... )

finally got these up on a hosting site. these are the last of my pictures that were any good at all. the friend that i travelled is just finishing up working on the pics that she took. now those are some pictures - will get them up as soon as i have them.

santorini, greece is highly recommended

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i'm finally getting around to posting a few pics from my recent trip to greece. it was a blast - had so much fun. great food, beautiful churches, wonderful people, splendid ouzo and visanto, red beaches, black beaches and one white sand beach. i wanna go again next year.

thanks to jasgrant for hosting some pics for me

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in the airport (headed for greece ( Read more... )

on the advice of noetic_toe, i drove over to durham to try bean traders. got some decaf ethiopian and decaf breakfast blend - but no decaf house blend - cuz they don't make it. noetic_toe - fix that won't ya ( Read more... )

if you don't like butter - use cream
--Julia Child

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