[Loolasant]

Many of you have been following my little saga of losing my job, finding a new place to live, and finding myself at the "Intersection of East and West" (to steal from Dcn. Michael) and deciding to consider the Eastern road a little more closely than before. Thank you all, by the way, for your incredible prayers and support! Please don't stop.

I sat down with the local GO priest here in town, yesterday. He and I meet together whenever our schedules allow to talk about spiritual matters: prayer, fasting, worship, family, etc. Wonderful man, and even more so now than I realized before. I told him of our situation and our consideration of Orthodoxy and...I'm not sure how to describe it.

He sat back, listened to my story, and then we talked about what it would take. Or rather, he told me that he would take care of me(!) He looked through his directory for the GOA for the town where we're moving and told me he would write ahead to the priest there to let him know we're coming and to be ready for us. If we were staying, he told me, we would be "his primary responsibility;" but as we're leaving, he wanted to make sure we were going to be taken care of!

I was just floored. I felt so loved and supported. Praise God. Our plan for now is to visit both the GO and the OCA churches in the area, decide which one feels more like home (sorry if you don't like subjectivity) and then throw ourselves into parish life for a year and then decide upon catechism from there. Keep us in your prayers!