"Longing for God is expressed
with fasting, with an empty stomach... Fasting has a unique meaning by
expressing the longing for God... The same occurs for prayer. If prayer to
myself had meaning, then my prayer life would be a human endeavor, a tendency
and revival, it wouldn't be God. My prayer has meaning because it exactly
expresses my longing: 'Come and abide in us...', the: 'Where are you, my God?'
"With fasting, vigil, and
prayer, chaos and malaise are shown to be our rags before God, as the poor man
shows his rags to his fellow man in order for him to have pity on him to help
him, or like the blind man cried out to Christ to give him light. Thus, we show
our poverty and he ask that He open our eyes in order to understand that we are
sinners, that we might repent and so He can forgive us...
"The approach therefore is an
uncreated energy, a true projection of His being. Because of this, my life as
well is a true communion with the true God. While God acts, I commune with Him.
While God is unapproachable, I partake of Him...
"Only the: 'Where are you, my
God?', can make visible the invisible presence of God...We give Him our
consent, our being, and He directs everything, He kneads us..."
-Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra
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