Thanks so much for your prayers and kind words. I think I am about to embark on another journey where I learn that I don't know nearly as much as I thought....and that it's really impossible to know much truth but LOVE.

thank you, thank you for this video.

this has given me some good ideas. I have been in the hospital recently and I have been away from my service dog and away from our normal routine. So you have given me some very valuable way to deal with problems that have developed due to just not practicing and being with someone other than me. The extra special snacks are a great idea sine someone sent me home-made jerky which is not on my approved diet.

Thank you reading/watching and for your comment. Most men wouldn't even bother reading it, let alone listening to it, seeing it as a sideways swipe at them. Some might even call file it under feminism or 'female machismo' (don't quite understand the Pope's term, but something might be lost in the translation. (Sure hope he doesn't mean something akin to a certain conservative talk personality's femi-nazi). I, your wife, my daughters, your daughter have been treated as if they are less than; and they have struggled with what they have been told about how they fit into God's creation.. I can guarantee you that and I can guarantee you they have probably told you very little of their doubts if they have told you anything at all. I spoken with young women in conservative churches; I have been a woman is a conservative church where the place of women, the 'theology' of woman is set in stone and the underlying message plants doubts about their whose image they were created and about their wholeness as human beings I think I know you, reading your blogs and comment on other blogs; I feel like I have made your journey journey into orthodoxy and especially into western rite along with you. My journey, like yours was a love story with beauty, tradition, reverence, liturgy, music all resting on the Rock of Truth. My encounter with God, not as a personal experience, but as part of a 'people' of the inheritance' began a journey of a truer conversion than I ever could have imagined. So why do I constantly struggle while you continue to thrive? I have physically returned to my Lutheran roots, but my soul still lives and breathes orthodoxy. Boy am I rambling in far off places; not sure if you even have an inkling about why a poem about the ontological essence of womanhood has to do with this, but it does. I don't know If you have any idea what I am talking about or are even interested in what being woman AND a convert to orthodoxy has anything to do why you flourish found it easy to lay deep roots and for me became a struggle that broke me, is breaking me. If not, just ignore the bulk of my comment and just skip to this- thank you so much for the comment and I am glad to know a man who has taken time to try to understand what is in the heart of a woman. If not, just ignore the bulk of my comment and just skip to this- Thank you so much for the comment and I am glad to know a man who has taken time to try to understand what is in the heart of a woman.