12/12/2019
Artemy Slezkin
Praying for others, especially for those who you detest, is bearing their burdens according to the law of love, the law of Christ.
Here on earth all of us humans are Wanderers and strangers. We are guests who have been allowed to wander here for a short time to collect treasures that will be useful to us in Heaven.
As for saying “I can’t” when, in fact, “I can”—this is playing a double game with ourselves. By our “I don’t want to,” when it actually should be “I can,” we deal cunningly with God.
Death will take life from our bodies, but our souls’ eternal life will continue. And it is this eternal life that we must implore the Lord to grant us every day, every hour, and with every sigh.
