Start discovering the real life!

I so envy the… (trouts?). They do not matter the crash of the water and swim against the current. I wonder, have we ever done anything similar in our lives? How many times did we decide to escape the comfort zone of this prosaism? Of this barren daily routine? How many times did we try to honestly talk to God? That’s what I envy; the real life. That’s what I desire; the real experience. To be real no matter how hard it is. No matter when the circumstances do not tolerate something different. And all of this, secretly… Difficult, but it is worth doing. To do whatever I can so that I could hold up on a raft in the sea of temptations. To love genuinely, unpretentiously, honestly. Unconditionally. Words with so much depth. It was about time to move from theory to practice. It was about time to show that with God as a guide, we can start discovering the real life. 

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God's doors

- Where is God in a serious or even a fatal accident?
- It's a question, neither good nor right, but I would say that it is a real question. That question exists in the soul of every healthily thinking and normal person. I will tell you how I understand it. God's space has walls and doors. A great door is God's love. Another great door is God's wisdom. On the other hand, pain is a wall. Anyone who wants to enter God's mystery through pain, will get serious injuries depending on the momentum with which he enters. You have to enter through love to see clearly the God's mystery about pain...

from a television interview with f. Nikolaos Chatzinikolaou, metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki, to Antenna Cyprus TV
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Sifnos island,Seven Martyrs Chapel

40 Holy Martyrs

Bitter is the winter, but sweet is Paradise. The hymnographer puts these words into the mouths of the 40 Holy Martyrs put into the freezing lake in Sebastia. We celebrate them on the 9th of March. One of the few feasts that is actually celebrated during Great Lent. How important is it for us to remember in bitterness the sweetness of Paradise!

When I worry

When I worry, He provides me with peace,
And a love that will never cease.
When I fear, He shows me there is hope,
And blesses me with a way to cope.

-poem by Ally, age 8. I love being a child of God. How about you?