One of the things that we take aboard when we resupply at sea is our mail. After our replacement parts, food, and supplies land on deck we begin receiving first the official correspondence, and then the personal mail. You have never seen in your life the amount of Amazon logoed boxes as a deployed shipContinue reading “Daily Prayer, 31 July”
Monthly Archives: July 2023
Do You Believe?
In the 1950s, a Harvard psychobiologist named Curt Richter conducted studies with rats, exploring how the responses to stress differ between the populations of wild rats versus domesticated rats. The study involved cutting off the rats’ whiskers and making them swim until they died, and, to the surprise of the researchers, the wild rats—expected toContinue reading “Do You Believe?”
Daily Prayer, 20 July
By this time in the deployment we were heading west, towards home, but still had to drive through some of the most dangerous seas on earth around the Arabian Peninsula. Trying to stay focused while both excited to be going home and fearful of what may lie ahead is tough, even for those who haveContinue reading “Daily Prayer, 20 July”
Daily Prayer, 19 July
One of the morale events the ship conducted while deployed was a talent show. It was a joy to see young men and women sing, play guitar and piano, dance, and tell stories for the entertainment of their shipmates. It was even more wonderful to see how encouraging of the performers everyone was. Aside fromContinue reading “Daily Prayer, 19 July”
Daily Prayer, 18 July
It has been a few weeks since I’ve been able to add some of these prayers, so I will be adding them out of sequence a bit, maybe adding the ones I’ve missed to the end. This one was date specific and reflects the period of our deployment. Several months away from home port, alreadyContinue reading “Daily Prayer, 18 July”
An Orthodox Priest Abroad 