Stumbling

 Forget about yesterday. Another day where I was too tired to do much of anything. I got through work, but I decided to start taking the ibuprofen, again. I did wash my dishes. I made it to the chiropractor and to the convenience store for smokes. Nothing was written. I watched a French film on Netflix, Unit 36. I asleep by 7 pm.

I talked briefly to KH. He was to call me back, but did not.

However, I had a longer chat with CC. She is going back into rehab. I wished her good luck. 

 Let us see what can be done today. 

I caught up with Patriarchal Catechetical Homily for the Opening of Holy and Great Lent. I need to keep this in mind.

Our experience of faith is “unique” and “profoundly personal” as a freedom given to us by Christ, as something that is at the same time “essentially ecclesiastical,” an experience “of common freedom.” This most genuine freedom in Christ is expressed as love and applied support to our concrete neighbor, as this is described in the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10.30–37) and in the passage about the Last Judgment (Mt. 25.31–46), but also as respect and concern for the world and the eucharistic approach to creation. Freedom in Christ has a personal and holistic nature, which is especially revealed during Holy and Great Lent in its understanding of asceticism and fasting. Christian freedom, as existential authenticity and fullness, does not involve a gloomy asceticism, a life without grace and joy, “as if Christ never came.” Moreover, fasting is not only “abstinence from food,” but “renunciation of sin,” a struggle against egotism, a loving departure from the self to the brother in need, “a heart that burns for the sake of all creation.” The holistic nature of spirituality in sustained by the experience of Great Lent as a journey toward Pascha and as a foretaste of “the glorious freedom of God’s children” (Rom. 8.21).

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