Festal Friday

Today I'm letting go of the need to be "important" or "right" and especially "mysterious." I'm shooting for interesting.

Regarding my newly-illumined blog, I must point out: many of the answers are online already. When my wife suggested that I write about the feasts of the Church on Fridays (Festal Fridays), I promptly consulted the OCA (Orthodox Church in America) website. They tell me it’s Saint Leo the Great, the Pope of Rome's feast day. He was famous for his amazing education and the ways he used his learning to advance the mission of the Church. Apparently he was quite the peace-maker too: "In 452, by the persuasive power of his words, he stopped Attila the Hun from pillaging Italy." Dang.

Every single day of the year is the celebration of the work of a saint (or many saints). Every rising of the sun is a mini-Pascha, and Christ is glorified in his saints.

A New Focus

I'm re-branding my life. Again. Not exactly sure how it'll turn out, but thanks in advance for being along for the ride.

I'm transitioning this blog from "all about Zak" to "let's consider Orthodoxy together." An information-sharing tribe around the ancient Christian faith rather than a billboard of my most recent musings. The content should consistently fly beyond me.

I plan to post a range - basic information, personal accounts, bits of saint stories, and historical information, and hopefully your blog posts too! - but always in bite-sized snippits. No more ten-pagers.

Many of my previous, long-winded posts fell into the "Christian" discussion already (Annunciation, Father Mel, Making the sign of the cross). I'll begin labeling posts, too.

I must get better at getting out of the way of the things that I love.

Whoa

I was getting tired of looking at "last post: 6 months ago" every time I logged on.
So here is me...

with the intention of writing.

Sigh. I'm hopeful I'll get re-inspired sometime soon.

Until then...

Hello?

It's been a while.

Update:
I'm now Orthodox.
I'm leaving for Africa in less than a week.
When I come back (if I come back), I'll be living in San Francisco at Raphael House.

Please visit when I come back! I'll have a billion stories, and a comfortable place to share them.
You are most welcome.

I may not have been posting, but I've been busy...

1. I'm set to be chrismated into the Orthodox Church on June 7, 2009. Pentecost.

2. I'm traveling to Rwanda and Uganda with Erik Ehn and a team from CalArts University on July 7, 2009.

3. I'm applying to be a Roadie for Invisible Children, and if accepted will begin work August 1, 2009.

...more details to follow...