logospilgrim

As I grow older, I discover more and more that the greatest gift I have to offer is my own joy of living, my own inner peace, my own silence and solitude, my own sense of well-being. When I ask myself, 'Who helps me most?' I must answer, 'The one who is willing to share his or her life with me.'
~Henri J.M. Nouwen

All that I have tried to say or write, has always been an inner need to transmit to myself and to others what burst forth, what was illumined and revealed to me in that moment.
~Father Schmemann

I do not write in order to teach others -God forbid!- but in order to reprove my unhappy soul, so that, shamed by my own words, as St John Klimakos says, I who have done nothing but speak may begin to act.
~from The Philokalia, Volume Three


Heartfelt greetings to you. I am a petite 38 year old woman and reside in the Great White North with my beloved husband and my cat Potion. I am solitary by nature but also quite friendly. I spend most of my time blogging and writing spiritual books in my strange little curiosity shop of an office. I enjoy sitting in my garden and quietly gazing at the sky. I am an Eastern Orthodox Christian and my faith is my life: my only desire is to please God and imitate the Lord. To be gentle...

My black robes are a sign of renunciation and a symbolic cloak of love that covers all wrongs.

How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord Almighty!
My soul yearns, even faints,
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God.

Even the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may have her young-
a place near your altar,
O Lord Almighty, my King and my God.
Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
they are ever praising you.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they make it a place of springs;
the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
They go from strength to strength,
till each appears before God in Zion.
~Psalm 84:1-7

If you wish to friend me, go right ahead. Peace to you always. I like to friend those who friend me, but I must tell you that I comment sporadically... Please forgive me. I am, for the most part, a silent presence. It also usually takes me forever to reply to email. I was born in the wrong century, I think. I enjoy writing with glass quills.