Dear Theodora Elisabeth,
My agreement to all the above with the following bit of advice:
The soul who stops thirsting for knowledge and faith is already on the way to loosing it (faith).
I thank you along with the rest above for your questons and comments and observations. We all live in a world where we are confronted by the unbelieving. We all could tell stories of the people we come across in our daily lives and I for one am glad to have a place where I can recuperate from the daily onslaughts of the godless.
Your posts and this forum shows that there are still others out there who search and thirst for the living waters of Orthodoxy. these same waters offered to the Samaritan woman are also offered to us to drink and be filled.
Long (sorry for the long post, not intentional) or short of it, (short! short!) is that you are more than welcome here with those who seek and knock at the door of the Church.
Juvenaly