(n.) the state of right paradox—inhabiting the tensions of Orthodox faith and modern life; a journal in progress on the strangeness of being a fish out of water and the creative, innovative, and sometimes awkward process of discovering the Truth of oneself, of life, and of God.
In any meeting,
there still exists anxiety
about the potential parting –
the abandoning,
the forgetting,
the empty.
But after meeting you,
and even in our parting,
there is no longer emptiness,
but something that remains.
And I still sense you,
even from a distance.