Sunday Gratitude – 12.I.2025

So! We’ve made it to 2025! It didn’t happen this year, but it’s crazy to think that more of my life has taken place after January 1, 2000 than before it. By the end of the year, I’ll have hit the point where I will have been an Orthodox Christian for more of my life than not. It’s a weird thought, especially considering that it often feels like I’ve been Orthodox much longer.

I’m grateful to still be plugging away at things. I’m still here, still struggling day by day, but I’m still getting up for the fight. I know that kind of sounds weird, but tomorrow is never a given, and in a blink of an eye things can change. The last couple of months have been a lot of activity wrapped in a light fog of melancholy, and the Nativity Fast didn’t necessarily help fend that off. It was a good and worthwhile thing to do, but there were a good number of strange thoughts kind of nagging at me.

I’m grateful to have passed significant points of progress in the big project in the house. It hasn’t even been two weeks, and there’s still a lot of work to be done, but I think it has helped make things calmer in general. Two of the rooms upstairs are clean, and that’s a lot more than could be said for a long time.

I am grateful for the people around me. I am grateful that I can withstand some irregularities when it comes to receiving money and such.

I am grateful for the prayers of the saints.

I’m tired, but I still need to go up and use the carpet cleaner on the one bedroom, so my mind is wandering off a bit. After the carpet cleaning, a short nap before some more work. *L* I’ve missed you all!

(P.S. Would you believe that the stats on this blog literally blew up while I wasn’t writing? Basically, there’s a Christmas song that Google is sending people to my little “Songs of the Season” bit on it from 2023 or 2024, so in the last month, I’ve gotten thousands of visitors. Very strange! *L*)

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