12/23/2020
Fr. Valery Zakharov
If we have inner peace, then the world outside of us will change, that is, all the disorder, everything that we don’t like, that contradicts our beliefs, will change.
We choose our path here on earth, and often we wander, returning to the drawing board again and again; again we try to break through the thicket of our thoughts, our laziness, our negligence—to the light.
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God gathers the scattered ones. He teaches us his word. He tries to establish a connection with us. He wants us to be like him. On the contrary, we want to make him like us. We try to get him involved in our affairs, troubles, and worries. However, there are times when we stop looking down and lift our eyes to the sky. More often than not, these rare moments occur during the Liturgy.
The humble are in Heaven while on earth. But how can we achieve this? How can we accept what God sends? Even today, despite the fact we have joined the Church a long time ago, we continue to consider sorrows and diseases to be some bad and sad moments of our lives, and death to be our main punishment.
I wish that we can all accept everything that God does for us, and be kind to our neighbors just like He is kind to us, because this is how our relationship towards God is strengthened – by our attitude towards other people.
On what is our spiritual building based? If it is based on the stone of firm faith, then there is no river or storm which can shatter it. But if we build it on sand, then it can collapse at sight.
