I got my books in from amazon.com... I read the first couple of chapters of
The Way of A Pilgrim, and I love it. So does my husband, so I'm letting him read it while I move on to other books, and I'll get back to it when he's done.
But when I started to read the preface to
The Ladder of Divine Ascent I got very discouraged. The writer of the preface really emphasized asceticism to the point that I felt that in the married state I will never be able to achieve union with God in this lifetime.

After twice working on the preface, I was so discouraged I wasn't able to finish the preface and move on to what St. John Climacus wrote. (Had to Confess despair, too

)
They had
Ascending the Heights on the shelf at Barnes and Noble (it wasn't there
last week :p ) so I bought it, and I'm reading it first. It's making
The Ladder much easier for me to handle.
