Saturday, while I stayed at home with childcare obligations and 6/8's of the family went to hear visiting Priest, Father Dmitri Cosby, speak about the end times and logismoi, I watched Grand Prix ice skating on the new NBC sports station, Universal Sports.
So how does one incorporate a talk on logismoi into one's planned talk on the end times? According to my husband's account, Fr. Dmitri is a student of eschatology, but he is moving away from prioritizing the knowledge of specifics about the future. Logismoi are thoughts that our undisciplined brain incessantly chatters which make us worry about the past and the future. A result of the fall is that we are unable to dwell in the present. He very much recommends Archimandrite Meletios Webber's book, Bread & Water, Wine & Oil, An Orthodox Christian Experience of God, to find out how to dwell in the present so that one need not unduly worry about Christ's Second Coming.
I find it much easier to work out on the elliptical exercise machine while watching figure skating, especially engaging figure skating such as Olympic hopefuls Davis and White from the USA and Virtue and Moir from Canada are able to deliver. Usually I am more attentive to the single skaters, but this year these two ice dancing teams are able to translate moving arms and legs into a transcendental experience that I can't describe. This routine won the Canadians the gold in France weekend before last:
Virtue and Moir
(Sorry, I haven't yet figured out how to post youtube videos on blogger yet.) The routine that won the United States the gold in Moscow this past weekend apparently hasn't been posted yet, but this one's pretty good:
Davis and White
I can't predict which one will win the Olympics as they didn't compete against each other during these events. I'd be happy for both North American teams.
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