Blogging can be easy. You read a hundred stories of tragedies, public shortcomings and sins and you pick the most outrageous to write on. But it can really wear you down after a while. I gets so I just want to read some good news sometimes. Sadly, those stories always seem a little more difficult to find. I’m kinda’ like Lot searching for the one righteous man. But Lot didn’t have a blog.
So yesterday, I grabbed my three year old in the afternoon and we walked hand in hand to our neighborhood 7-11 just to give my poor bloggin’ head a break. She couldn’t decide between an Icee and a candy bar. The decision was much too much for her. It was like Sophie’s Choice for three year olds. While I waited I looked down at the newspaper in the rack. The headlines detailed murders, wars, Church scandals, and crooked politicians. I sometimes think that newspapers could run the same stories every day and just fill in different names and datelines – like Mad Libs for pessimists. It can get downright depressing.
March 9, 2011 at 3:07 pm
12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.
13 And he was in the wilderness forty days,
tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.
Mark 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-3k6lAlmfk
Chants of Great Lent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5a0lNsZGLs
Gregorian Chant – O Bone Jesu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__L2uoCXUfc
Media Vita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgQiOpCbEQc
The Great Lenten Prayer of St. Ephraim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgm67x0cCPY
Chanticleer~Mysteria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-1k6geIemE
ORTHODOX LENT CARÊME EASTER PÂQUES MONASTIC CHANT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMp6btmfQfA
Ash Wednesday and Lent – Kyrie XVII
HE is COMING!!
THIS TIME HE WON"T BE SPIT ON.
March 9, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Thank you for the beautiful article on this very fine Ash Wednesday. It made me smile.
March 9, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Reminded me of a great song.
Thank you.
A thought– this is a little like the "X is going to happen anyway, so may as well make it happen now." It can be right or wrong, but simply that it's going to happen isn't enough reason.
March 9, 2011 at 6:26 pm
This made me cry (one of those happy cry's we women do). I needed this today. Thank you.