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Gah. Sinuses appear to be filled with concrete. Cough vile.

I think tomorrow would be an appropriate day - in terms of health needs! - to eat a fairly oriental chicken noodle soup with chillis. I could go and fritter more money away at the (rather good) Chinese carryout, but does anyone have a decent recipe they could contribute instead? That would probably be cheaper and certainly be more satisfying.

Bother, I was going to make the Ember tart, wasn't I? I wonder if you could put chillis in that.... (No, definitely a bad idea!

*looks hopeful, in a hypochondriac and self-pitying way*

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( Door for Friday in Advent 2 )

A Prayer by Thomas Merton, which resonates, rather...

MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"
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