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

Monastery and this is Pines with Aquinas. I recently been re-reading what's one of my favorite novels? Maybe my favorite novel? It's called Green

Dolphin Street by an author named Elizabeth Gouge. And what I really love most about the novel I think and what I really love about

Guja's writing in general is the characters are just not one-dimensional and they're not easily definable. They're very complex and I think that's reflective of the reality of humanity because we you know we can get

into these these modes where we watch a movie or we read a book and we're like that's the bad person,

that's the good person, or I know exactly what this person is going to do because it's just

so their behavior is so predictable.

But in this novel, Green Dolphins Street, it's just Guoosh really develops the characters

in a way such that you can see how their hearts have

been formed the wounds that they're acting out of what what their defense mechanisms are, so on and so forth.

And so you can see this person has the very good exterior, but it's coming from kind of a

self-protective place or this person has not a great exterior and it's

also coming from a self-protective place or whatever it may be and it's caused

me, rebating it has caused me to really look more closely, examine my own actions, and try to be more aware of how I'm acting out of my wounds.

And I know this kind of sounds like a bit of,

I don't know,

it's kind of like a buzzword or something like that in the modern world of just

talking about our wounds and how we're acting out of them and where we need healing

and so on and so forth and it can be this place of just like well I don't trust modern

psychology and so I wanted to share like the Lord has just been bringing all of

this together for me in my own prayer in all the

different places that I'm like my spiritual reading and this novel and things like

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