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May this bless you all as much as it has blessed me!
http://www.metropolit-anthony.orc.ru/eng/eng_04.htm
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Create in me a clean heart O God!
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Dianne,
Thank you! WHAT A GREAT ARTICLE, THOUGH IT DOES NOT SURPRISE (oops, darn caps lock!) me that Met. Anthony (of blessed repose) wrote it. He is truly inspiring. I particularly liked this section.
When we read the Old Testament we may at moments think of the world once created by God moving and developing before the face of its Creator, and called one day to be judged. This vision is so poor and so inadequate to what the Old Testament teaches us. The fact that God called us, all the world visible and invisible, the fact that God called all things and beings out of naught, out of radical non-existence, into existence is already a relationship. We are related to God by this act of creation and in this act of creation. When we think that whatever and whoever he called into existence is called to be a companion of God for all eternity, we can see the depth of the divine love and the extent of the divine risk. Because we are free to accept the love of God and to reject it we can frustrate this love or fulfil this love. But God's love remains immutable and he remains faithful for ever. He creates each of us in hope and in faith, and at moments when our faith vacillates and our hope sways and wavers we can rest in the divine faith and in the divine hope. When we think that the cost of our faithlessness and our waverings is paid by God in the life and death of the Incarnate Word then we can rest assured in his love."
This may be worth posting in a general area where a greater number of people could read and be blessed by it.
His unworthy servant,
Eusebios.
Thank you! WHAT A GREAT ARTICLE, THOUGH IT DOES NOT SURPRISE (oops, darn caps lock!) me that Met. Anthony (of blessed repose) wrote it. He is truly inspiring. I particularly liked this section.
When we read the Old Testament we may at moments think of the world once created by God moving and developing before the face of its Creator, and called one day to be judged. This vision is so poor and so inadequate to what the Old Testament teaches us. The fact that God called us, all the world visible and invisible, the fact that God called all things and beings out of naught, out of radical non-existence, into existence is already a relationship. We are related to God by this act of creation and in this act of creation. When we think that whatever and whoever he called into existence is called to be a companion of God for all eternity, we can see the depth of the divine love and the extent of the divine risk. Because we are free to accept the love of God and to reject it we can frustrate this love or fulfil this love. But God's love remains immutable and he remains faithful for ever. He creates each of us in hope and in faith, and at moments when our faith vacillates and our hope sways and wavers we can rest in the divine faith and in the divine hope. When we think that the cost of our faithlessness and our waverings is paid by God in the life and death of the Incarnate Word then we can rest assured in his love."
This may be worth posting in a general area where a greater number of people could read and be blessed by it.
His unworthy servant,
Eusebios.
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