Today has been a tutorial in paska making; my third grade teacher and I have been friends for 40 years and for the first time I am making her Russian Easter bread alone. Numerous phone calls and careful instruction have yielded eight beautiful loaves.
Three trips to the store for golden raisins, flour and bread crumbs, piles of dishes and painstaking work have been fruitful. Making something new is messy; in our spiritual lives we have been busy in Lent asking God to clean our hearts through prayer, confession, fasting and almsgiving. We want souls open to God's love and mercy.
What is God creating in you this Lent?
Medicine from Sacred Writings:
"Little children who go daily to their teachers receive their lessons, and repeat them, and never cease from this kind of acquisition. For the same reason also we divide to you in portions what is written in Scripture, that you may take pains to remember them all, as to be able exactly to repeat them to others yourselves, unless anyone be sleepy and dull, and more idle than a child." St Chrysostom Homilies on St. John Homily XXV.1 NPNF1; 14.87
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