Wordle! Mother Gavrilia and Elder Paisios
I used the sayings of Mother Gavrilia and Elder Paisios to make word-pictures at wordle. Click on the pics to see everything more clearly.
Christ is Risen! 2008
This bit of freestyle embroidery I based on a pysanky design found in Zenon Elyjiw’s Sixty Score of Easter Eggs: A Comprehensible Album of Ukrainian Easter Eggs. A fantastic book.
Inspired by Sue Dove
I stumbled on a fabulous book by Sue Dove, Painting with Stitches, and it inspired me to create this small embroidered picture. It’s only a few inches square, including the border, and it’s done with just the simplest of stitches. Still, it was a blast, and I’m already working on my next one, which is inspired by Ukrainian pysanky.
Sarah Elisabet Oftedal of the Martha and Mary House
Martha and Mary House provides a home for pregnant women in crisis. Its housemother, Sarah Elisabet Oftedal, in talking about her journey to Orthodox Christianity, says, “I felt a glimmer of hope that Christianity was real and could save me from nothingness. Since I could not prove it false, I made a desperate leap of faith across the abyss of what seemed absurd and promised God that I would live the rest of my life as if He was there.” I could have said those same words myself!
But Sarah Elisabet really lives those words. Here’s more about her journey and her current work.
(photo credit to Jim Forest)
Heads Up: The Thrifty Oreganic
The wonderful Carrie T has created The Thrifty Oreganic, an extremely helpful blog on living frugally and healthfully and somewhat sustainably! Thank you, Carrie!
(photo credit: Suttonhoo)
Meet Mother Gavrilia
If you haven’t yet met Mother Gavrilia, today is your lucky day. The book about her, Mother Gavrilia: the Ascetic of Love, changed my life.
” … whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.” — Mark 10:44 RSV
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