needed

263_Needed

I was once again looking at the frozen environment photo when a vision I had came back into my mind. It was the vision I had of walking over a frozen river and eventually I fell under the ice and was swept away by the current. I was unafraid but as I went along the

arriving

262_Arriving

Upon arriving I procured a place for two nights, went to the pilgrim’s office for my journey to Mt. Athos and the ascetic peninsula. My trip to Athos starts tomorrow with a night’s stay in Oranoupolis then the boat shall take me to the port, Daphni, where my time there shall begin. If it be

meetings

261_Meetings

I arrived in Thessaloniki yesterday after a train ride and meetings with a female conductor who wanted to do more than just talk, a Muslim who was from Turkey living in Bulgaria. He showed me how people, who can travel to Romania, buy items of all sorts for cheap then bring them over the boarder

next

260_Next

Tonight, I return toward Greece and should arrive in two sun rises at Thessaloniki, where I hope to talk with the monks around Mt. Athos on the peninsula. I am unsure what shall come about but I know that I must go. That is my next step in travel, what is to be my next

group

259_Group

That brings up the matter of the organized Christian religion. The teaching of this group is of the Jesus and believes of his immaculate conception, his death and the forgiving of our, the world’s, sins and his resurrection. They hold to this, they believe this to be the truth, but is it the truth? For

forget

258_Forget

Yet as time goes by, as it does for us by the passing of days, my load continually becomes lighter and my patience for things increases and my money becomes less, I forget more of what I was in the world and how the world was. Yet it is not so much that I forget,

myself

255_Myself

I talk much of love and yet there is the most important question, do I love myself? I can tell you that I am very unhappy with myself at times for my weakness of the flesh and giving into desires and cravings of the body. To holding onto money rather than giving it to the

verses

254_Verses

I have been told and realize that I give many verses and quotes from the Bible and I feel like most come from the New Testament and that which came from the Christ. (LOVE) Will you know of this book as I do? Will you only know of it by study from others that have