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A watercolour pencil drawing of a tree that I walk past each day. The round shapes attempting to capture and hold the ever changing seasons and passage of time. Spheres can be an emotive shape - soft, round, comforting, lifegiving, nurturing. Reminiscent perhaps of a mother's breast. When I was drawing this tree, I began by feeling frustrated by the small shapes and the time it was taking me. But as I continued to draw, the repetitive hand movement became soothing.
The fridge is currently empty, save for the bare essentials: empty ice cube trays and Amanda's sweet, lifegiving Pepsi.
today i walked home from downtown. it was probably the most lifegiving 30 minutes i have had in a long time, probably since sharp top this summer. i ran across these two trees that have started growing in an intertwined way. it is so cool and different. i want my life with Christ to look like this. they are one and have begun to look more like each other and you cant tell where one ends and the other begins. i love that i live in a place where i can see this each day.
The feast is celebrated on the anniversary of the day on which St. Helena found the True Cross on which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.
The feast also commemorates the day in 335 AD on which the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was dedicated,and the day in 629 AD on which Patriarch Sergius I elevated the True Cross at Hagia Sophia after it was recaptured from the Persians by Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
Along with Great Friday, it is one of the two Orthodox feast days which is a strict fast.
Fasting is observed for this feast no matter on what day of the week it falls.
In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the official name of the feast is "Universal Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross".
During religious service on the feast day, a cross decorated with flowers is brought into the middle of the church by a procession, accompanied by candles and incense.
The priest elevates the cross in four cardinal directions, each time repeating a benediction.
The congregation also says the Doamne, miluieste!(KΓ½rie, elΓ©ison) a hundred times.