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I wish you a blessed week! A prayer for anyone in need.

“Let thy mind fast from vain thoughts; let thy memory fast from remembering evil; let thy will fast from evil desire; let thine eyes fast from bad sights: turn away thine eyes that thou mayest not see vanity; let thine ears fast from vile songs and slanderous whispers; let thy tongue fast from slander, condemnation, blasphemy, falsehood, deception, foul language and every idle and rotten word; let thy hands fast from killing and from stealing another’s goods; let thy legs fast from going to evil deeds: Turn away from evil, and do good.” - St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

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I wish you a blessed week! A prayer for anyone in need.

“Some people by the word freedom understand the ability to do whatever one wants … People who have the more allowed themselves to come into slavery to sins, passions, and defilements more often than others appear as zealots of external freedom, wanting to broaden the laws as much as possible. But such a man uses external freedom only to more severely burden himself with inner slavery. True freedom is the active ability of a man who is not enslaved to sin, who is not pricked by a condemning conscience, to choose the better in the light of God’s truth, and to bring it into actuality with the help of the gracious power of God. This is the freedom of which neither heaven nor earth are restrict.”

+ St. Philaret of Moscow, Sermon on the Birthday of Emperor Nicholas I, 1851

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Good morning!

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Good morning!

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There will probably still be some snow here and there, but spring is definitely here! Wish you an awesome productive day!

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Does anyone else just love the sound of the rain? Happy Saturday!

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I wish you a blessed week! A prayer for all in need. “Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world. I am at this moment in some pain, and I call on the Name of Jesus—not necessarily to relieve the pain, but that Jesus, in Whom alone we may transcend this world, may be with me during it, and His will be done in me. But in pleasure I do not call on Him; I am content then with what I have, and I think I need no more. And why is a philosophy of pleasure untenable?—because pleasure is impermanent and unreliable, and pain is inevitable. In pain and suffering Christ speaks to us, and thus God is kind to give them to us, yes, and evil too—for in all of these we glimpse something of what must lie beyond, if there really exists what our hearts most deeply desire.''

+ Fr. Seraphim Rose, quoted in Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works

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I wish you a blessed week! A prayer for all in need.

“God is everywhere. There is no place God is not…You cry out to Him, ‘Where art Thou, my God?’ And He answers, “I am present, my child! I am always beside you.’ Both inside and outside, above and below, wherever you turn, everything shouts, ‘God!’ In Him we live and move. We breathe God, we eat God, we clothe ourselves with God. Everything praises and blesses God. All of creation shouts His praise. Everything animate and inanimate speaks wondrously and glorifies the Creator. Let every breath praise the Lord!”

– Elder Joseph the Hesychast, 78th Letter

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That's so beautiful!

Treehouse Gardens

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:)))

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Is that awesome or what? :)

Who needs to walk when you’re only 12 hours old, just take a calf taxi.

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There is nothing better than having a beautiful papaya plant in your garden. I hope that the following growing guidelines will help you to succeed in growing it from seeds!

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Scenes from the Hawaiian Tropical Botanical Garden near Hilo.

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Now that's awesome!

This looks very fresh, so I'd love to see the results after three months or so. Someone do this and report back to me. Also, I can't believe I have to mention this, but don't do this with plants that are poisonous to dogs.

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Great to follow for goat pics and stories!

Man it sure was cold last week! At least with fiber goats they don't need an extra sweater! Just a warm barn and a nice bed of straw 🐐

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Shopping day today and I got some products from a local dairy. They're not a small business, but I know all milk comes from farmers in the area. And their products are so fresh and got that homemade cheese taste!

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So beautiful!

Clouds were beautiful tonight… I❤️ New Mexico. (at Kingdom Cattle) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnil25BN3lo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=