the weather is fine today. i want to tell something about today Church meeting. Sergey was talking about prayer and about word "saint". it was really cool. we were talking also about the meaning of the Church and its purpose. i think that we need Church to share our faith in Christ with others and just try to draw near to God through the relations with brothers and sisters.

for me, Church is the place where i can sit and start my imagination, or stop thinking about dairy problems and dive into the spiritual world. still the Church is the place of confession. i don't want to talk about confession in orthodox churches, but i am talking about your own confession, something that is between you and God, and nobody else can know this... also today we had such practice as talking "God loves me" to each other. Sergey said such thing: "That's easier to say that God loves somebody, but that's harder to remember that God loves somebody". i don't know, why, but that's true!..

when i came home, i had a great conversation with my mom. she told me that it was time in her live when somebody told her about God, but now God talks to her. she is reading the book of Juliah Bloom "The book of Job", and she likes it. when she was talking to me, her eyes were filled with tears, and that was incredible... i think, that God likes our tears, and He gathers them into His hands and our tears is wery important for Him...

that's good. our God is good. today Olya is living to Hawaii. tomorrow it will be an ordinary day and it will be hard to remember that our live at all in non-ordinary and there is something beyond our seeing and sometimes beyond our understanding. and there is our Best Friend that is always near and He will be...