BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2021, THIS BLOG WILL BE “PRUNED” FROM THE ANCIENT FAITH PLATFORM. PLEASE VISIT AND/OR SUBSCRIBE AT NEARLY ORTHODOX FOR FUTURE UPDATES! I know. I miss life the way it used to be as well. It’s been months since I was able to worship with my church family in person. There are some days I long so much for the past freedoms to move around freely that it’s almost painful.…
I’ve had more than one person say to me over the past couple weeks: “With Pascha here, I feel like COVID-19 should be over.” Shouldn’t this thing be over now? Christ is risen, you know.
I have been criticized a number of times recently because my approach to this pandemic has not been “How do we keep doing business as usual in face of all these obstacles?” but rather “Given that we have this problem, what do we do in the midst of it?” To me, though, the question is whether I believe this present state of things is given to me for my salvation.
We’re okay. Even when life around us is most definitely not okay. And suffice it to say that these past few months have been a whole barrel of not okay. This morning I woke, fuzzy-headed, as is usual these days. I always begin with remembering what day it is, as though I was stranded on a desert island and had to keep a calendar to keep my sense of time and season.…
What I do affects who I am and what I believe, especially when it is something I do over and over. It is my habits, my repeated actions, that influence how I see the world and who I am.