Still Here
Right.
So it’s been, what five or six years since my last post. Sheesh, what a loser. I don’t deserve a Faithful Four.
Updates: We are moving into my grandmother’s house (she died about a year ago). Part of moving was cleaning out her house. As she was a heavy smoker and last redecorated in the earlier Seventies, we had to paint everything and pull up the carpet. The place is looking good, but all the extra work has stretched out The Move to a multi-week endeavor. I pray this is the last time I ever have to move.
MZSFR is about to publish the second issue! Woot! It’s bigger and better than the first one. The downside is that with the move going on we’ve basically been on hiatus for about three weeks. We’re behind our publication schedule, but hopefully it will be worth the wait.
Paul, age 3, is starting to sound Orthodox. We’ve been reading How the Monastery Came to Be on Top of the Mountain by Alvin Alexi Currier and The Story of Mary the Mother of God by Dorrie Papademetriou (I was going to give you a link, but keep getting an error when I try to reach St Vlad’s Press, they publish it). Now he knows the “Fee-oh-toh-kos” when we see her. And he even know that she is Jesus’s mommy. Kewl.
Sophie, age 10-in-one-week, is another story. She has shown no interest in Orthodoxy at all. This is a kid who loves history, thinks Native Alaskans are cool (Julie of the Wolves, Island of the Blue Dolphin), and once told me that my church was more like heaven than mom’s. I am at a loss.
Stacy just posted a new entry at Orthodorks that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. I’ll keep it in mind to post soon. In the meantime, maybe they’ll get a good discussion going.
Philippa has tagged me for a meme. I’ll do it. But my responses wont be all that interesting.
1. How many bibles are in your home?
Hmm. Five or six.
2. What rooms are they in?
They were in the living room and my office. Now they’re in boxes.
3. What translations do you have?
NKJV, KJV, RSV, NIV
4. Do you have a preference?
RSV, except for the Nativity passages, which sound blasphemous unless I hear them in King James English. Thank Charles Schultz.
5. Nominate an interesting verse:
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
Reminds me of a sermon Father gave comparing the beatitudes and the definition of Love as describing God is and how we should strive to be. Really helped me keep perspective in my own mixed household. Especially: “Love…bears all things, believes al;l things, endures all things.”
Congratulations on the move – did you find wood floors under the carpeting?
I think 10 is a hard age, Raphael. I know how much it hurts your heart, though. Glad to hear about Paul, he’s so cute!
Keep me posted on the second issue.
And, by the way, I LOVE Vladimir – I finished reading it last week. Thank you again for the recommendation.
Moving. I H-A-T-E moving. I agree with you…may we never have to move again.
I can’t even imagine how much work it must have been to repaint an entire house that had cigarette smoke all over the walls. Ugh. My aunt and uncle were heavy smokers. I’m still cleaning nicotine tar off the furniture she gave me.
I love the way Paul said Theotokos! That’s too precious.
I agree with Mimi, 10 in a girl is tough. All that hormonal stuff is going on. My DD was nasty at 10 and didn’t see the light till 13. Hang tough Daddy. It’ll get better.