ICON: Theotokos Seeker of the Lost
Look how the night grows pale; the darkness gives way to a delicate, serene blueness. So gradually as to be scarcely noticeable, traces of light appear in the east. It is no longer night, but neither is it yet day.
Minutes pass of enigmatic silence. It is as if the world is waiting once again to be created by God, as it was at the genesis of time.
–from Reflections of a Humble Heart: A Fifteenth-Century Text on the Spiritual Life
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About turtlemom3
Late-70’s Orthodox Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, nurse with PhD, disabled. Married to the Ol’ Curmudgeon for 44 years - and I’m pretty doggone happy about that!
Interests: Orthodox Christianity; reading; service dogs; computers, woodworking
Greatest Life Experiences:
Converting to Orthodoxy, Caving in Idaho, Attending Russian Orthodox Choir Conference (Oh! that music!).
Favorite Things Back in High School:
Reading; classical music - nerdy things.
Favorite Things Back in College:
Reading; classical music - nerdy things
Favorite Things to do Now:
Reading; classical music, computer stuff, surfing the internet - nerdy things - no real change!
Favorite TV Programs: Anything about Sci-fi or forensics - or both?
Favorite Movies: The Chosen; Ostrov; 84 Charing Cross Rd; Air Force One; Becket; Indiana Jones; Star Wars;
Favorite Music: Russian Orthodox (Christian) chant; Bach; Mozart's Magic Flute
Favorite Quote: The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.”~*~ St. Seraphim of Sarov, Spiritual Instructions
Favorite Authors: Robert Heinlein; Mercedes Lackey; Anne MacCaffrey, Fr. Steven Ritter, Sarah Elizabeth Cowrie, St. Nikolai Velimirovic - among many others
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