Blog Block

I've been getting emails wondering why I haven't posted for so long. The following is a response I just sent to one of those emails:

This is one of my favorite things about my blog readers....they wonder how I am if I don't post! That is so sweet!
I stared at an empty post last night and wrote....nothing. I had a few possible posts in my head and a few started but there were important topics uppermost in my mind and everything else seemed trivial. Yet I had nothing prepared on the most important topics on my mind: Advent and my uncle George's memorial on Sunday.

My family is Eastern Orthodox so this is the 40 day memorial. I looked up ways to explain this...partly because I wasn't sure also.I had been told this is more important than the funeral. And I had been reading emails from cousins who were touched by what I wrote about George and also asking if I was going to Toronto this weekend. For various reasons I decided not to.

So. For all those reasons I have blog block. I also rebel a little about this time of year. In Advent I love the way we mentally "Prepare the way of the Lord" and participate less the way the world prepares. I like the way the church is bare until Christmas Eve and then stays up into January!! Epiphany!! Yes!!

I think I just wrote my next post.
You, again, have inspired me.

Thanks.