Garee, I don't even bother to read your notes anymore. Do yourself a favor and admit to your own ignorance and unworthiness and seek the Lord with all your heart and soul!


A foretaste of heaven

When I heard Thy herald Paul proclaim and say, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him" (1 Cor. 2:9), I was sure that it was impossible for anyone who was in the flesh to enter into the contemplation of them. I thought that Thou didst show these things to him alone out of a special generosity, and I, the wretched one, did not know that Thou doest this to all those who love Thee. From what source or in what manner could I have known that everyone who believes in Thee becomes a member of Thee (cf. 1 Cor. 6:15), and by grace reflects Divinity -- who would believe it? And that he becomes blessed, in that he becomes a blessed member of the Blessed God? Whence could I have known that Thou takest the place of physical food, becoming immortal and uncorruptible bread (cf., Jn. 6:32-58) with which those who are hungry for Thee are never sated? That Thou art an immortal spring to those who thirst (cf. Jn. 4:14), and a robe resplendent with light to those who for Thy sake wear shabby clothes? When I heard these things spoken by Thy messengers, I supposed that they pertained to the world to come and would happen only after the resurrection. I did not know that they take place now, when we are in greatest need of them. ("Symeon the New Theologian: The Discourses", p. 361)


God bless you

"Theology is only a feeble attempt to understand in human language the great plan God has for us, which can be actually known in the heart without words, but rather through a relationship with Jesus Christ." ~ Anonymous