heaven

267_Heaven

Much on my trip has come across that which lies after death of the physical life. I am now with the understanding that if you serve yourself in this life you shall go back to nothing, but if you are of the immortal spirit, the afterlife is not one of being waited on with such

hear

266_Hear

Money shall solve nothing for the poor and yet I am talking from an elevated position while I still have money. I shall pray that my Father speaks through the tongue of the monks and that I retain their words and they are a source of guidance to my life and direction. For if I

bound

265_Bound

I still have not done what I have come to do. I am bound by train schedules and fear not trusting that my Father shall take care of me and yet while I still have money, should He? He is with me daily but I am still in the world and did He not provide

capacities

264_Capacities

I have begun daily to question my travels and myself. Thinking I should quickly return to the States and Lucedale but for what, to later wish I had gone to Israel, Egypt, India. I know I am to return but I must return with purpose and in an act of serving my fellow man. Yet

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,