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Most holy Theotokos, save us! “Everything in this life passes away—only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of the world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls…

The Podcast is Live As the series “The Rose and the Lotus” closes I am assuming the title of it as my publication name going forward. This is due to many reasons, of course, but mostly because of something someone recently told me about their loss of their old personality as a new identity emerges…

Thy Will Be Done “God, direct my thinking today so that it be empty of self pity, dishonesty, self-will, self-seeking and fear. God, inspire my thinking, decisions and intuitions. Help me to relax and take it easy. Free me from doubt and indecision. Guide me through this day and show me my next step. God,…

Catharsis, Calvinism, and Conniption Fits “These are the ways you also once followed, when you were living that life. But now you must get rid of all such things: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with…

Right View “For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves” (Galatians 6:3). I’m not one for meetings. I spent some time in Al-Anon in my younger days and I just never felt like my presence was appropriate. There was one woman I still think about to this day, sitting in…

Χριστῷ συνεσταύρωμαι ζῶ δὲ οὐκέτι ἐγώ ζῇ δὲ ἐν ἐμοὶ “‘Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you and will cause flesh to come upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you, and you…

All who exalt themselves will be humbled… “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62). I’ve been messed up for the past couple of months, drinking coffee, kava, and seltzer like I’m a week out from my last drink, unable to get out…

In conclusion… “No one can drink, at the same time, of the cup of the Lord and of the cup of the demons. Nor can you, at the same time, be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the table of the demons. Or would we set ourselves against the selfhood power given by…

Theology of the Cross St. Paul’s gospel message was meant to combat the inclinations of mere humans by giving his spiritual children milk and honey, slowly weaning them off the things of this world bringing them closer to Christ. The meat of the gospel preached by Paul is the cross, his own theology of the…