The rugged life

• This was some advice Fr. Elchani­nov gave to a young per­son who wrote him a let­ter. I don’t know what the letter-writer said exactly, but I thought the advice was applic­a­ble to all of us:

  You com­plain that your life is ‘rough and rugged’. But what­ever we do is always like that. Where there are men, there are pas­sions, nar­row­mind­ed­ness, self­ish­ness, con­ceit. Thus it is all the more nec­es­sary for us to main­tain our­selves at a cer­tain depth, to keep in mind the all-embracing, final goal before us, to destroy in our­selves all that is petty and triv­ial: then we shall find it eas­ier to suf­fer all these faults in oth­ers. O God, send us patience, gen­eros­ity, meek­ness. We are all work­ing, not for our­selves, but for God: and there­fore all con­flicts will be set­tled, not through our own great efforts, but through God’s wisdom.

  – Fr. Alexan­der Elchani­nov “The Diary of a Russ­ian Priest”

  
  

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  4. Life report — good news and bad

  
  
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