May 21, 2005
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WOW! We just finished watching EUROVISION, live from Kiev,
http://www.eurovision.tv/english/index.htm
and Greece won !
Congratulations, Helena Paparizou!
And it is her name day today! Xronia Polla! Many Years!
Eurovision has been around for 50 years, ABBA was a winner one year. I first learned about Eurovision during our years in England. It is a BIG deal in Europe, a billion people tune in. It might seem kind of chessy for American taste. But no more chessy than American Idol, which is a European import. Many countries voted Greece into first place. The song was really good compared to the other choices. Albania, Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Hungray, Serbia and Montenagro, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom all voted the song from Greece into first place. I also really liked the song from Malta. the singer had a beautiful voice and the song came in second place. Before each country’s song they showed footage of that country. Russia’s was beautiful! Full of images of the Orthodox Church and beautiful Russian painted eggs. Next year Greece will host Eurovision since it was the winning country this year.
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Comments (3)
Lisa:
I just read on Heidi’s blog that you’re leaving the board and maybe your blog :( I totally understand the MB situation – I don’t post much myself because it seems odd to me to have a “cyber life”. But I’m sad because I loved reading you and Rayna. She hardly posts anymore and I miss her orthodox insights. I hope you will keep your blog because you post lots of interesting reading material along with your personal life stories.
I want you to know that you’ve helped me greatly on my (slow) journey to orthodoxy. Your enthusiasm for orthodoxy is contageous and you are so helpful to everyone. I appreciate all the information you’ve given people and the time you’ve spent on women just discovering orthodoxy. Your book recommendations alone have been invaluable to me! I thought it was unbelievably nice of you to look at the website of the church I’m planning to visit and offer to call the priest for me! :heartbeat:
You are a shining example of an orthodox woman and your blog puts you “out there” for the world to see. I hope you’ll keep it going. I know you’re busy with your family but maybe leaving GCM will free up so much time that blog may not be much of a burdon. Anyway – whatever you decide – all the best to you and your family!
Tracy,
Thank you so much for you kind words.:heartbeat: That is very nice of you to say. I think I will be able to keep the blog up. I am glad it has been so helpful. I do love being an Orthodox Christian and sharing my deep love of Christ and His Church. I also very much enjoyed being able to learn from other Christian mothers on both the message boards. I will miss both of them very much. I have made some wonderful relationships that will not end just because I am no longer posting on MBs. Please feel free to e-mail me anytime. I do want to know how everyone is getting on and I would hate to lose touch with any of you. I was on the Shed for a year and on GM for a short time. I have learned a lot and for that I am grateful. I really appreciated all the insight it gave me into other peoples’ lives and faiths. The women of both message boards are incredibly open people whom I am grateful to have been able to share so much. I enjoyed celebrating everyone’s joys and praying when there was sorrow in people’s lives. I will not stop praying for any of you. Thank you to both boards for allowing me to share my faith openly. I am very grateful for all of you and for all that I have learned.
Tracy I am so glad to be able to help. I will miss learning from the other Orthodox mother’s like Rayna,(E)Lizabeth and also some of the very well read mothers on GM. Several people have e-mailed me to let me know they appreciated my blog and as long as it is a service I would like to keep it up.
Thank you for your well wishes for my family. I hope you all have a wonderful, fruitul summer. :sunny: I look forward to hearing from you all through my e-mail. presvlisa@yahoo.com or my blog. Tracy anytime you have a question I will try and help, just let me know. :)
(E)Lizabeth ,
Thank you for you words they really made sense to me. :heartbeat:
“There is no one dogmatic opinion within Orthodoxy. St. John Chrysostom speaks on all the Scriptures of the New Testament and he makes it quite clear that there is a time and place for firmer parenting measures, for the sake of saving a child’s soul. But he, as well as many Orthodox saints, do not encourage on the reliance of physical discipline for the sake of training someone up for Christ. It is Orthodox teaching and understanding that it requires grace for someone to learn to love Christ, and not harsh punishment. It is grace that trains someone up for Christ. Our job as parents, is to attract grace into our home, so that it will lead and sanctify us together as a family.”
And this too,
“We really need to understand the Orthodox perspective in everything we do.”
:)
I hope it is not this blog your are thinking of giving up. You are so good at it, and share so much of the Orthodox Faith. You have such of gift for this.