My youngest son and my DIL are flying home for a visit tomorrow. I'm so excited to see them.
Until they were grown and on their own, I had never realized how hard it is to let them go. I think that's a part of parenting that we should talk about more often. It's much harder than potty training or teaching them to tie their shoes.

Maybe it's just my system, but images don't seem to be loading today. Thought I'd comment in case it's not just me.

I run an internet filtering service for families that helps them block website promoting porn & other satanic causes. I offer 24/7 chat support to any visitor to the site (FreeFiltering.org). Occasionally, I get "fun" incoming chats...

I figured I would share some resources in Spanish!

Everyone who has come to the Orthodox Church to have some white bread, you are wrong. This will be in the end. But before that you will need to work very hard. You will work hard, bearing the cross of the Orthodox asceticism, and the cross of outer sorrows, which the Lord sends us, such as illnesses, loss of relatives, and misunderstandings with the people surrounding us. You will also have the inner cross of your thoughts, which may prove stronger than the outer one, as sometimes thoughts burst one’s head and heart, so that the person says, “I wish my hand or my leg ached, rather than to have this inner pain.”
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