Categories: life
Date: 03 March 2009 04:40:41
Not sure if it is something in the air, the time of year, a cycle of my strange brain...or something else...but I feel as though I am plodding along through life currently: plodding in some sort of dream state where one day melts in to the next. A quite odd feeling.
Something our priest said at Saturday's cooking class(*) triggered a desire of mine: to visit, stay for some time, at a monastery. Perhaps that has got me a bit itchy to leave where I am now...and life here seems dull and unexciting currently, so that may have something to do with it. At the same time now is not the time: I have certain responsibilities which must be met. But perhaps one day. I do look eagerly to June and the Monasticism in Georgia tour.
I am enjoying the monthly cooking class. I am no cook, great or otherwise, but it does give me new ideas I may someday inflict on others, and more than that it is a time together with people in the parish: and often those I may not get a chance to speak to or know a great deal about after Liturgy Sundays. I do greatly enjoy it: such a seemingly simple activity, as with many instances of activities, is one that is so strong and so effective in bringing people together. Thanks and praise be to God.
(*) Qurban [Lebanese Holy Bread], the bread used for Holy Communion at Orthodox Divine Liturgies [called Prosphora] but also edible as is -- and it was so very tasty and wonderful -- and warm: warm, freshly-baked bread -- is there anything better?