New Seasons

Hi. It's been a year. This place needs some cleaning. I'm going to try and start this up again, but you'll have to ignore the cobwebs and tea-mugs stacked everywhere!

It's a full year since I was here, and what a year! I'll get to the details by and by. For now, it's the beginning of Lent, the most special time of the year (I think), being a time of renewal. On which note I would like to share the following quote, which someone (thank God!) shared with me yesterday:

Be attentive to yourself, so that nothing destructive can separate you from the love of God. Guard your heart, and do not grow listless. For when a man abandons his sins and returns to God, his repentance regenerates him and renews him entirely.

~St. Isaac the Solitary (from the Philokalia)

These are lenten thoughts: attentiveness, closing the separation with God, the state of the heart. And of course, repent, repent, repent, with the hope of being renewed ENTIRELY. I needed that.

Yours, with hope, etc.