The ear of the still intellect will be made to hear marvelous things from God.
– St. Hesychios the Priest

When the heart has acquired stillness, it will perceive the heights and depths of knowledge.
– St. Hesychios the Priest

From this day, from this hour, from this minute, let us strive to love God above all and fulfill His holy will.
– St. Herman of Alaska 

Earlier this week, temperatures fell into the single digits and everyone bundled into coats and blankets and hunkered down to keep warm. But today the temperatures have drifted nonchalantly above freezing, the somewhat fitful February sun is making an appearance, and I find it in my heart to believe that yes, the seasons might actually […]

After giving “Pilgrim’s Regress” a bit of a thumbs-down review, I’ve been finding that some snatches and excerpts of it keep coming back to me. Recently, I was having to do time-consuming, repetitive chores to get a stack of documents to print correctly, and I found myself thinking of what John’s angelic helper tells him […]

I tried to make my way through “The Pilgrim’s Regress” again, armed with “Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C. S. Lewis’ Pilgrim’s Regress.” I thought it would help me unravel all the esoteric allegories. I’d love to report that it did, but … nope. I still only partly understand who Mr. Sensible and the […]

What is it that makes politicians reach for the Tent Revival rhetoric to make a point? Everyone went nuts when they found out that Huckabee said in 1998 that he wanted to “take back America for Christ”, and now Michelle Obama is telling us that electing her husband to office will “fix our souls”.
Sooo … […]

I had a fond idea of using the opportunity of the CD to provide a little education about the eight tones. But I got the education myself, and found out that the tones weren’t as I expected them to be. I think there’s some info that might be worth the read. But first, let’s catch […]

In the previous blog post, I typed my e-mail address in incorrectly because … well, see the subject line above for details. I have fixed it in that post, but if anyone e-mailed me and didn’t get a reply, my apologies and please try me again at goodnightgrace2006@gmail.com

Hooray! The CDs my choir made as a fundraiser got finished up earlier than I had said. So here’s another one of the tracks to celebrate. This is probably the shortest number on there, but it’s Greg’s favorite one, so that’s good enough for me. Plus, I kind of like that I managed to get […]