I went to get in my car after class today and yet again it is dead. please everyone pray that it is fixed by friday afternoon so I can get my windshield fixed in time to get the car ready to go to Colorado the day after thanksgiving. Also prayers are requested for employment so I can finally start paying back my dept from all these car repairs.
In Christ,
Nicholas Zollars
NicholasZollars wrote:I went to get in my car after class today and yet again it is dead. please everyone pray that it is fixed by friday afternoon so I can get my windshield fixed in time to get the car ready to go to Colorado the day after thanksgiving. Also prayers are requested for employment so I can finally start paying back my dept from all these car repairs.
In Christ,
Nicholas Zollars
Be assured of my prayers that (if it be His will) God will allow that car to work (or not work) to your benefit.
I have a similar problem with a car. Maybe its all the rain we've had lately that is draining away its power to run the good race. How many times will it get wet before it gives up completely? Sometimes its not a lack of water, but too hasty water that is the problem.
o.M
Thank you Father for the prayers.
i well know hwat you are talking about. teh other day we got over 4 inches in under 10 minutes, and it continued that way for hours upon hours. it ended up that mainstreet actually had to close because of it.
An update, they now think it is the air flow sensor or the air filter.
Nicholas zollars
NicholasZollars wrote:i well know hwat you are talking about
I don't think so. You caught an obvious literal reference to this week's storms, but the car was a symbol for you. The meaning of water should be self-evident to anyone who knows Bp Gregory's history 
Maybe you will wait to travel - may God help you wait - until the parable makes sense.
From last Sunday's homily at St James:
Bp (St) Nikolai Velimirovic tells us the whole world is one long parable consisting of innumerable stories. And this world of parables we live in is just as ephemeral as a tale that is told. Soon the end of the parable of our life will come and we will be judged. Did we learn our lessons?
The spiritual meaning that is hidden in every parable – every event of our lives – is enduring and does not decay. Those who nourish themselves in this world of daily happenings (parables) only with their earthly eyes and earthly ears, feed on the outer flesh of the fruit of existance – and like fruit falling to the ground, this meal is not enduring in the soul but quickly decays. Hunger quickly returns and such people remain spiritually hungry --- for the spirit is nourished not by the outter flesh but by the life-bearing seed within – the inner kernal of the parables of the circumstances of our life.
Bishop Nikolai goes on to tell us that simple awareness of the events in our lives is not sufficient for us to penetrate to the seed of meaning in these manifold parables – these events of our life -- and that if we continue, as unspiritual and sensual people, to feed on the green leaves and outter coverings of the parables we will always remain hungry and restless and impatient in our hunger. But a spiritual person will be satisfied and filled with peace, even if, like Lazarus, he literally lies in physical hunger and decay on the threshold of salvation.
All things that exist are parables. All that happens is the stuff of parables, for it is all clothing a spiritual content, a spiritual kernal, a spiritual nourishment that leads us to eternity. There are no coincidences.
o.Mark
