It Should be OK

It has been interesting, challenging, and rewarding to blog. I've met a few people on-line and as a result have had some heart-to-heart conversations both on-line and via email. But after a fairly long struggle in prayer over the last couple years, it is finally clear to me that I must simplify and redirect my life if I want to end this leg of the journey in peace. This means a number of things, one of which is I'm going to stop blogging. As gently as I can, and with God's help, my intent is to untangle some of the knots I have tied myself into over the course of my life. Over the past weekend, Photini and Sub-Deacon Gerasimos helped me see the direction my life is taking a little more clearly, and Elder Paisios summed it up nicely tonight in a chapter entitled "On Chastity and Love" from a collection of his letters to nuns published with the title, The Epistles.

After dinner, I read aloud from this chapter to my wife and our cat. It was sort of like having the Elder sit at the table with us. He's very plain-spoken, simple, but a little hard to hear. The dead may speak softly, but they speak with authority. I decided I need to try and do what he says. Please pray for me. I have weakened my conscience substantially over the years through neglect, so I figure I'm going to have a bit of a battle on my hands since I've grown accustomed to "busyness." But I also figure God will help me, so it should be OK.

Take care, Bill