Glory to Jesus Christ. I'm Mother Natalia, a Byzantine Catholic nun from Christ to the Bridegroom

monastery and this is Pines with Aquinas. A couple of weeks ago I was cleaning out the gutters at the monastery and the reason I was cleaning out the gutters at the end of June is a different story and I'm not going to go into that right now but the point is I was cleaning out the gutters and

a very dear priest friend of mine came to help me with this on his day off because he's just so good.

And as we're cleaning out the gutters,

I end up having two reflections.

Both of them kind of happen actually in the midst of the work and so it wasn't even

something that I had to wait for later which is really good because I needed the

reflections right away. So we have leaf guards on our gutters and the leaf guards work great for keeping out the leaves.

However, I realized when I was up there on the roof that there was a lot

of moss that was growing inside the gutters and to the extent that some of them were blocking the drain and we had to anyways it was a whole thing but here's the point

before going up on the roof, I had told Father Steve.

Father Steve, there's only a couple sections left

that we need to do.

It's probably only going to be like 20 minutes. And then we get up there and as I'm taking off the

leaf guards and looking underneath, the moss is just covering the whole thing and

we're scooping this out handful by handful and it's

taking forever forever way more than 20 minutes we're up there for I don't know an hour

and a half and and I realized how

terrible my attitude was about this because of my expectation going into it. I was expecting this to be a quick job and because it was taking so

much longer and we had the time for it. We have the time set aside so it's not even

like this was pressing on the rest of my schedule, but it just wasn't what I was expecting and because of that I had a really poor attitude.

I was complaining the whole time. Every piece of leafguard that I took up, I'm like,

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