Easter in Greece

Having celebrated Easter, I now find myself still in the Orthodox Lenten season in Greece. Yesterday, we went to Meteora where there have been monasteries on high nearly inaccessible mountaintops for almost a thousand years. The monks established them there to be between heaven and earth. On top of the 60 million year old rocks are beatiful churches painted with icons many centuries old. The accumulated prayers of the faithful surround you, the faint smell of beeswax candles and incense fill the air, and the beauty of the art made for God touches your heart. Next week is Holy Week so many make a pilgrimage to these monasteries in preparation. We climbed up there, also and were blessed with a once in a lifetime view of the world.