With most of the ports on this cruise — Dublin, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg — the question wasn’t “What do you do?” but “What don’t you do?” Knowing what to leave off the itinerary can keep you from running around trying to do it all. But that didn’t seem like it was the problem with […]

Our little onboard intro to Dublin says: Intimate and friendly, compact, relaxed and easy to discover on foot, Dublin is a city full of surprises. It almost looks like a small town with gorgeous architecture left there for safekeeping.
And so it is, with winding streets full of little shops, street performers and lots and lots […]

Does it sound just terrible to say that on our big first day in fabulous Dublin, we landed at the hotel, sloughed off luggage and yesterday’s clothes and slept for five hours? I hope not, because that’s what happened. But that’s why we gave ourselves an extra day, to get rid of some jet lag […]

Going off on the big cruise. I don’t so much want to get away. I want to come away.

The apostles gathered together with Jesus; and they reported to Him all that they had done and taught.
And He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a secluded place and rest a while.” (For there were […]

From “Daily Lives” today …
The hearts of other sinners have been softened by discussions with pious people. You, too, go and have a discussion. If you hear word after word of discussion, will not one word strike you that will be unto the separation of soul and spirit, according to the thoughts of the heart? […]

Don’t you hate to waste a lovely spring day on a bad mood? But the sun is glistening outside, lawnmowers are humming, … and I’m bummed out.

It’s probably my own fault. Last week I looked in on a series of YouTube videos that I should’ve known would bring me down. They were a panel discussion […]

The goal of reading is the application, in our lives, of what we read. Not to learn it by heart, but to take it to heart. Not to practice using our tongues, but to be able to receive the tongues of fire and to live the mysteries of God. If ones studies a great deal […]

Thought this quote from yesterday’s “Daily Lives” was worth passing along.
Everyone is made in God’s image, but to be in His likeness is granted only to those who through great love have brought their own freedom into subjection to God. For only when we do not belong to ourselves do we become like Him who […]

Well, if I’m trying to climb back on the blogging wagon, so to speak, I suppose I could do a lot worse than talk about a meeting — maybe it would be more accurate to say ‘altercation’ — that I had on the job with an angry, unhappy woman. It happened over a week ago, […]

I’m not sure, but this may have been the longest time I’ve gone between blog entries. I’m kind of hoping that enough people subscribe to RSS feed that they haven’t been dropping by only to find nothing new time after time.
But what can you do? Like most of the Ortho-bloggers I read, blogging is […]