“My standard prayer is to throw my arms around the nearest child who cant outrun me and say Hail Marys until the screaming stops. Then I go clean up the blood.”
See, TC, this is why I mentioned that +Symeon wrote for his monks and that it was important to remember that when reading him. Monks don’t have the opportunities for theosis which daily present themselves to mothers!
I fancied I had a monastic vocation at one point. Guess I didn’t, really :-). But we visited a college library on Friday to ask about the location of some Civil War graves, and I had a strong desire to hide until they stopped looking for me!