Darkness
Avoiding this present darkness
For those who embrace the enjoyment of partying and
entertainment, all in an attempt to avoid the hardships and life struggles that
make great souls, they will have failed to embrace the essential element that
makes this life journey salvific. They will have avoided their service of love
by enduring those difficulties that unite them to the love of Christ, and
Paradise itself will have been sacrificed.
The Lord promised us that the yoke would be easy, and
the burden light (Matthew 11:30), if we united ourselves to Him. Christ opens
the door to Paradise, fills our hearts with His divine love, and we become new
creatures. But if we do not have Christ, we do not have love, and all our
material gain will have led us down the road to a spiritual void that is
darkness. If we do not have Christ, even our fasting, virtue, labor, and prayer
will have been meaningless.
When we turn to Christ and let His embrace lift us out
of the stagnation of this present world, we will have gained everything,
eternity will be ours, and love will have filled the void that is this present
darkness.
Love
in Christ,
Abbot
Tryphon
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