If I remember aright, it was C.S. Lewis who related the story of a man who prayed "Lord, give me patience!". Whereupon God gave him many things to be patient about. Lewis meant it to be true and humorous at the same time. Though I was not Orthodox when I heard it (years after his death), it has stuck with me for decades as a signpost of prayer and answers to prayer. It helped me avoid many pitfalls in life as I groped haltingly for prayer and answers, helping me finally to become Orthodox some 23 years ago (1999). Whereby we can see how, according to God's mercy, a prayer and joke by a non-Orthodox can lead a non-Orthodox to Orthodoxy, and how God is indeed in all places and fills all things. Glory to God for all things, and Lord, have mercy on me a sinner! May the prayers of our mouths and the meditation of our hearts be pleasing unto you our God, and bear fruit in fertile soil. Amen. ☦🛐 Many thanks, Father Seraphim.
Dear Esmee, as Mary pointed out in her comment, patience - like all virtues - becomes real when it is given as a gift, a grace from the Holy Spirit. Until that moment, all we can do is force ourselves, to settle for patience as a struggle. Christ will step in - at the. right time - and turn this 'forced virtue' into something real, something alive.
Hello Father, I'm calling from Portugal. My name is Andreea (ex-catholic) and I would like to say that I listen to your words and learn from them everyday. Please don't give up on talking. You had a great impact on me. I even listen you when driving before meetings... I start to listen when you first talked about the desert Fathers and Saint Sophrony. Doamne ajută
I can't believe this video was 3 years ago. It's just as you have said that there's nothing new about humanity. I woke up this morning frustrated and impatient. I knew I wasn't in a good frame of mind or heart to face the day. I needed some guidance, so I thought to myself, Let's see what Father Seraphim has to say about it, and here this video is, saying exactly what I needed to hear when I needed to hear it. It was the first video I found. Thank you for your insightful teachings! This has helped calm me and put me in the right state of mind and heart to be able to pray about this and to face my day! Thank you!
Patience, like any virtue is less something that we can achieve and more the grace of God in our life, all we can do is the work of prayer to stay close to Him as best we can. Thank you Father Seraphim for your prayers and spiritual insights.
Glory be to God! We do try our best to answer to the question that feels more urgent, in the sense of it being 'real' and of practical importance, instead of theoretical / dogmatic questions. We are all one in Christ and your worries become ours, just as your prayer and virtue benefits the entire world. May God bless us all, dear one. Christ is risen!
Thank you Father as always for your deep insight for daily living. Growing this virtue is an ongoing battle. I seem to grasp it but then it slips away from me again. I've been following since hearing your podcast on 'killer prayer.' Blessings to you and the monastery.
Thank you for your prayer, dear one. Insight for daily life, advice for the little things that are in our power, something simple and practical - that is all I hope to offer, because salvation comes from these little things. Christ is risen!
I’m commenting only on the title because I haven’t had the patience to watch this whole video. Nor most of the ones since. I’m convinced our modern digital life has made distraction the norm and slowly thinking something through and deep contemplation has become so challenging. Lord have mercy. Our brains are being altered by our devices in ways we’re only beginning to understand.
Christ Is Risen! Thank you very much, Father! Patience is a great virtue, which unfortunately we most people do not have..... May the good Lord grant it to us!
He is risen indeed! Dear Antoaneta, patience feeds itself - it is like playing the piano or anything like that. The more we do it, the better we get at it and we slowly begin to see the results. And then, simply because we like the results, we want to practice even more. It is the same with patience - the more we try it, the more obvious become its spiritual benefits, which makes it easier in time. With God's help and a bit of will on our side, everything becomes possible.
Thank you, Fr. Seraphim. This is a well-timed message for me. I am currently anticipating a conversation with a longtime friend, and this piece is crucial. Pray for me, Anthony. 🌺☦️Christ is Risen☦️🌸
May Christ enlighten you, dear Anthony. Patience, keeping in mind that you love this friend and silently praying (or just repeating the Name 'Jesus' in your mind) will bless the conversation. Christ is risen, dear one!
God is Love, as you well know, dear one. He will never abandon us, because God never changes - He is Love today, and tomorrow and in eternity. Christ is risen!
Thank you Father, I was just having this conversation with my mom. We are Inquiries and were raised Protestant. We also live in the US and are all about that quick fix. Patience is lacking in our lives. I've been noticing everything in my life currently is testing my patience and revealing just how impatient I am. I've been so terrible at staying in that place of tension. Prayer and repentence has helped. Perhaps Christ wants his people to learn how to be patient for a world that is the opposite? Perhaps this lockdown will lead his Church to be more effective ambassadors for him once this is all over, God willing. Thank you so much for your words and your prayers. God bless you. Christ has Risen!
My dear Luke, I try to think often of all the examples when patience leads to life - seeds bursting into a tiny plant; a tree growing roots; an artist learning his skill; cartilages turning into bones; myself as a child gradually falling in love with maths after hating having to learn how to count. All these simple examples teach me that all good things require time - Christ allows things to be a certain way in this fallen world, so we may look at them and learn from them. If a tree needs to wait in order to develop roots (and only much later even consider baring fruit), the same applies to my spiritual life. If that tree were moved from place to place every time it got 'bored' in one place, it would never grow roots and it would die without even knowing its own fruit, without knowing itself. Christ is risen, dear one.
thank you so much father seraphim for your wisdom kind words of wisdom but I just find myself stressed out to the point where I just can't take it anymore . please pray for me.!!!!!
Dear Marie, we are all affected in different ways by different passions. Similarly, we all respond differently to the same passion - spiritual life is entirely personal, we can try to learn from the experience of others, but only our own experience (trying and failing) will teach us what works and what does not work for us. For me, for instance, the thought of the pain and suffering of others (people who have incurable diseases, people in war zones, people who lose the ones they love, people who just find our that they are dying or that someone they love is dying etc) brings humility in my mind and I feel ashamed to even consider my own so-called 'tragedies'. Perspective helps me. It also helps me to pray for the world.
@@mullmonastery Yes, Father. This reminds of my Grandmother who always used to say, "If you think things are bad and you are suffering, look around. There is always someone who is worse off than you are."
Somehow I lost my patience over time I guess it started when I started to realized I wasn't as loved as I thought I was by 'mom' her love went elsewhere, and after I was forced to watched and take care of my little sister's kids and then left I just got tired of seeing everybody having things but me I did something stupid along the way lost my patience but never with them that would have been wrong, who never really loved me as much as I loved them but I've let go I only now just want to leave and never look back, being patient once again, 2 timothy 6:10 is so true as what GBS said of the lack of it as well.
Father, Christ is Risen. Patience is always a challenge and it is always good to be reminded and encouraged in the struggle. I have learnt an eminence amount of patience and perseverance in writing my PHD, along with self discipline. Academia can be a school of patience and forbearance with oneself along with the academic community. Just as there is not quick way to write a research project there is no quick way to acquire virtue or by grace reach salvation.
Truly He is. risen, dear one. You are right, academic work kills one if one does not develop patience. That being said, there is a difference between patience as applied to a 'created' activity, such as academia, and patience applied to a spiritual activity, such as prayer, for instance. They differ because their fruit differs (academia can lead to pride; pray leads mostly to humility) and that fruit then feeds back the patience itself and changes its spiritual 'shade'. Take good care, dear Phoebe.
Thank you for your kindness, dear one. This feels so out of my 'safety zone', I feel I am walking forward like a blind man, simply because I am aware we (the Monastery) need to do something, we need to offer something back for all the support we have received and continue to receive. So we do the little that we can, in the hope that Christ can made some use of it. Thank you for your words of encouragement, they do mean a lot. Christ is risen!
Hristos a Inviat! Va transmit o imbratisare din Bogdanesti, Suceava, parinte Serafim! Ma bucur foarte tare ca v-am redescoperit recent. Pe vremea liceului, mergeam cu drag duminica, impreuna cu tatal meu, la manastire la Rasca... Acolo v-am intalinit privirea prima data...(probabil erau primi ani ai dvs in monahism). La un moment dat nu v-am mai vazut in obstea manastirii... Minunat e faptul ca in toamna ce a trecut, stand de vorba cu un vecin ce a lucrat la gater acolo, v-am aflat numele :) iar in ianuarie cautand pe RUclips ceva de parintele Seraphim Rose, v-am regasit pe dvs si v-am reascultat cu drag! Pace si bucurie sfanta! -valentin
Adevarat a inviat! Rasca e casa mea de suflet, Valentin, iar familia mea de suflet raman Parintele David, parintele Mihail si toti fratii de la Manastire. Revin 'acasa' in fiecare an, in septembrie, cu un grup de pelerini din Statele Unite. Stam la Schit, in padure, doua saptamani, si mergem peste tot prin Bucovina, sa ne inchinam la manastiri. Te imbratisez in Domnul. Poate reusim sa ne si intalnim anul acesta.
Va multumesc, parinte Serafim! Sa dea Domnul sa ne putem vedea candva. Chiar daca acestea au fost primele cuvinte schimbate cu dvs, parca va stiu de o viata! Doamne ajuta! P.S. Zilele acestea v-am descoperit si podcast-ul, sa dea Domnul sa continuati si acolo!
Thank you Fr. Seraphim for another powerfully profound, enlightening RUclips video. This topic was one I needed to hear. As usual your comments, which resonate in my brain and heart, tie into so many spiritual principals that I find it necessary to keep repeating this video to try, to just TRY to catch them all and then more importantly to REMEMBER them. I am a new convert to Orthodoxy, (almost 3 years) and was previously a Protestant, but I could never go back to anything else. My still short journey as been nothing but amazing to me! As a Christian, I mean well, but I often battle the “Giant of Forgetfulness”. Do you have an antidote for that? God Bless your work! A sister in Christ, Suzanne Payne
I’ve heard that ‘we fast to help us overcome spiritual forgetfulness’. And I try to be obedient to that discipline. I am also grateful for your teaching videos. When I hear you I hear spiritual TRUTH: I KNOW it, I FEEL it but why is it so fleeting? Why can’t I retain it? I am still so, so woefully short on remembering and especially putting this WISDOM into actual practice. At times I feel my Christian life is like Christ’s parable of the seed that was eaten up by the birds. It scares me, too, because of the scripture, “To whom much has been given, much will be required.”
I have listened to your video again and discovered that ironically the answer to my question on how to combat spiritual forgetfulness was already in what this video was all about: Patience is the beginning! What a thick headed, impatient, myopic woman I am! LOL. But my Lord is so good and He’s brought your RUclips videos to me to think about, internalize and hopefully apply. Thank you Fr. Seraphim.
It's impossible to have patience during work. Work is fast today and it need fast responses; customers, coworkers, problems, how is possible to have patience with all of that happening at the same time? Patience it's a luxury that isn't present and will never be in working enviroment.
I appreciate what you're saying, and definitely agree with the need to learn patience. But then you said that we can't discern between the evil one's voice or God's, yet Jesus clearly said that His sheep know His Voice. If true Christians who are filled with the Holy Spirit can know Jesus's voice, (as well as understand His will through His Word,) then what do you mean by us not knowing the difference between the voice of the Enemy and the voice of Christ?
Father, does patience mean we don’t do anything (our will, our ideas) while we wait patiently for it to be obvious or that God makes something happen? Or does it mean keep doing the same things until God moves us along?
Dear Cris, patience is not a passive state of being, just like obedience in a monastic setting is not a passive attitude. It takes all our will to remain patient or obedient, and you need a very well-oriented heart and a very well-educated mind in order to not respond and to not abandon. These things seem passive from the. outside, but once you begin to practice them, you soon learn that - internally - they are active approaches to life, and that they require all you will and your intellectual / emotional strength in order to hold on to them. Christ is risen, dear one!
I prayed for patience and the Lord gave me 4 children :) I'm still learning.
So God heard your prayer and sent you four professional patience-teaching tools :) May Christ bless you and your entire family, dear one!
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If I remember aright, it was C.S. Lewis who related the story of a man who prayed "Lord, give me patience!". Whereupon God gave him many things to be patient about. Lewis meant it to be true and humorous at the same time. Though I was not Orthodox when I heard it (years after his death), it has stuck with me for decades as a signpost of prayer and answers to prayer. It helped me avoid many pitfalls in life as I groped haltingly for prayer and answers, helping me finally to become Orthodox some 23 years ago (1999).
Whereby we can see how, according to God's mercy, a prayer and joke by a non-Orthodox can lead a non-Orthodox to Orthodoxy, and how God is indeed in all places and fills all things. Glory to God for all things, and Lord, have mercy on me a sinner! May the prayers of our mouths and the meditation of our hearts be pleasing unto you our God, and bear fruit in fertile soil. Amen. ☦🛐
Many thanks, Father Seraphim.
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Yes, i have come to the realization that I am greatly lacking in this virtue. Thank you for this helpful word on the subject.
Dear Esmee, as Mary pointed out in her comment, patience - like all virtues - becomes real when it is given as a gift, a grace from the Holy Spirit. Until that moment, all we can do is force ourselves, to settle for patience as a struggle. Christ will step in - at the. right time - and turn this 'forced virtue' into something real, something alive.
Hello Father, I'm calling from Portugal. My name is Andreea (ex-catholic) and I would like to say that I listen to your words and learn from them everyday.
Please don't give up on talking. You had a great impact on me. I even listen you when driving before meetings...
I start to listen when you first talked about the desert Fathers and Saint Sophrony.
Doamne ajută
I can't believe this video was 3 years ago. It's just as you have said that there's nothing new about humanity. I woke up this morning frustrated and impatient. I knew I wasn't in a good frame of mind or heart to face the day. I needed some guidance, so I thought to myself, Let's see what Father Seraphim has to say about it, and here this video is, saying exactly what I needed to hear when I needed to hear it. It was the first video I found. Thank you for your insightful teachings! This has helped calm me and put me in the right state of mind and heart to be able to pray about this and to face my day! Thank you!
God bless you Father
May we all be blessed, dear Lucien. Christ is risen!
It might take trust to become patient, and maybe pain too! Still learning to listen to and obey the still, quiet voice.
Patience, like any virtue is less something that we can achieve and more the grace of God in our life, all we can do is the work of prayer to stay close to Him as best we can. Thank you Father Seraphim for your prayers and spiritual insights.
You speak so well Father! Thank-you for your efforts from here in New Zealand
This is just what I needed to hear and had a conversation about this exact topic with my spouse right as this video was uploaded.
Glory be to God! We do try our best to answer to the question that feels more urgent, in the sense of it being 'real' and of practical importance, instead of theoretical / dogmatic questions. We are all one in Christ and your worries become ours, just as your prayer and virtue benefits the entire world. May God bless us all, dear one. Christ is risen!
For i have low tempered person.. pray for me father seraphim for stronger patience in every tension may jesus touch my heart always..
Pray for us father seraphim to increase and stronger patience.
Thank you Father as always for your deep insight for daily living. Growing this virtue is an ongoing battle. I seem to grasp it but then it slips away from me again.
I've been following since hearing your podcast on 'killer prayer.' Blessings to you and the monastery.
Thank you for your prayer, dear one. Insight for daily life, advice for the little things that are in our power, something simple and practical - that is all I hope to offer, because salvation comes from these little things. Christ is risen!
Great homily, I needed to be reminded of this! Yes we want in the moment! I’m learning patience you are an old soul on spot on! God bless you!
Please pray for my salvation. My spirit is so torn. I've blasphemed God please help me
I really needed to hear this today. Thank you for all your wisdom and work.
Lovely office, Father. Thank you again.
I’m commenting only on the title because I haven’t had the patience to watch this whole video. Nor most of the ones since. I’m convinced our modern digital life has made distraction the norm and slowly thinking something through and deep contemplation has become so challenging. Lord have mercy. Our brains are being altered by our devices in ways we’re only beginning to understand.
Christ Is Risen! Thank you very much, Father! Patience is a great virtue, which unfortunately we most people do not have..... May the good Lord grant it to us!
He is risen indeed! Dear Antoaneta, patience feeds itself - it is like playing the piano or anything like that. The more we do it, the better we get at it and we slowly begin to see the results. And then, simply because we like the results, we want to practice even more. It is the same with patience - the more we try it, the more obvious become its spiritual benefits, which makes it easier in time. With God's help and a bit of will on our side, everything becomes possible.
@@mullmonastery Amen! Thank you very much, Father!
Thank you, Fr. Seraphim. This is a well-timed message for me. I am currently anticipating a conversation with a longtime friend, and this piece is crucial. Pray for me, Anthony. 🌺☦️Christ is Risen☦️🌸
May Christ enlighten you, dear Anthony. Patience, keeping in mind that you love this friend and silently praying (or just repeating the Name 'Jesus' in your mind) will bless the conversation. Christ is risen, dear one!
May the Peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be always upon you All. O God make hast to help us, and grant us sinners a speedy victory
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God is Love, as you well know, dear one. He will never abandon us, because God never changes - He is Love today, and tomorrow and in eternity. Christ is risen!
Thank you Father, I was just having this conversation with my mom. We are Inquiries and were raised Protestant. We also live in the US and are all about that quick fix. Patience is lacking in our lives.
I've been noticing everything in my life currently is testing my patience and revealing just how impatient I am. I've been so terrible at staying in that place of tension. Prayer and repentence has helped.
Perhaps Christ wants his people to learn how to be patient for a world that is the opposite? Perhaps this lockdown will lead his Church to be more effective ambassadors for him once this is all over, God willing.
Thank you so much for your words and your prayers. God bless you. Christ has Risen!
My dear Luke, I try to think often of all the examples when patience leads to life - seeds bursting into a tiny plant; a tree growing roots; an artist learning his skill; cartilages turning into bones; myself as a child gradually falling in love with maths after hating having to learn how to count. All these simple examples teach me that all good things require time - Christ allows things to be a certain way in this fallen world, so we may look at them and learn from them. If a tree needs to wait in order to develop roots (and only much later even consider baring fruit), the same applies to my spiritual life. If that tree were moved from place to place every time it got 'bored' in one place, it would never grow roots and it would die without even knowing its own fruit, without knowing itself. Christ is risen, dear one.
thank you so much father seraphim for your wisdom kind words of wisdom but I just find myself stressed out to the point where I just can't take it anymore . please pray for me.!!!!!
Pray for me. Patience is impossible for me. But all things are possible through God.
Thank you, Father. Nothing so stagnates the soul and drags it down into darkness like complaining. What is the cure? Gratitude, thanksgiving??
Dear Marie, we are all affected in different ways by different passions. Similarly, we all respond differently to the same passion - spiritual life is entirely personal, we can try to learn from the experience of others, but only our own experience (trying and failing) will teach us what works and what does not work for us. For me, for instance, the thought of the pain and suffering of others (people who have incurable diseases, people in war zones, people who lose the ones they love, people who just find our that they are dying or that someone they love is dying etc) brings humility in my mind and I feel ashamed to even consider my own so-called 'tragedies'. Perspective helps me. It also helps me to pray for the world.
@@mullmonastery Yes, Father. This reminds of my Grandmother who always used to say, "If you think things are bad and you are suffering, look around. There is always someone who is worse off than you are."
God bless you father
Please pray for my family, Abraham, Rachel, Jonathan, Michael, my children ☦🙏
God bless you 🙏. Your words are helpful and wise.
Somehow I lost my patience over time I guess it started when I started to realized I wasn't as loved as I thought I was by 'mom' her love went elsewhere, and after I was forced to watched and take care of my little sister's kids and then left I just got tired of seeing everybody having things but me I did something stupid along the way lost my patience but never with them that would have been wrong, who never really loved me as much as I loved them but I've let go I only now just want to leave and never look back, being patient once again, 2 timothy 6:10 is so true as what GBS said of the lack of it as well.
Anastasia 🌹 xristos anesti Christ is risen. 💖 your channel. Holy mother of God preserve this monastery and work, many years Fr . God bless.
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Father, Christ is Risen.
Patience is always a challenge and it is always good to be reminded and encouraged in the struggle. I have learnt an eminence amount of patience and perseverance in writing my PHD, along with self discipline. Academia can be a school of patience and forbearance with oneself along with the academic community. Just as there is not quick way to write a research project there is no quick way to acquire virtue or by grace reach salvation.
Truly He is. risen, dear one. You are right, academic work kills one if one does not develop patience. That being said, there is a difference between patience as applied to a 'created' activity, such as academia, and patience applied to a spiritual activity, such as prayer, for instance. They differ because their fruit differs (academia can lead to pride; pray leads mostly to humility) and that fruit then feeds back the patience itself and changes its spiritual 'shade'. Take good care, dear Phoebe.
Indeed he is risen
I've watched this twice - glory to God for your words of wisdom and encouragement, thank you!
Thank you for your kindness, dear one. This feels so out of my 'safety zone', I feel I am walking forward like a blind man, simply because I am aware we (the Monastery) need to do something, we need to offer something back for all the support we have received and continue to receive. So we do the little that we can, in the hope that Christ can made some use of it. Thank you for your words of encouragement, they do mean a lot. Christ is risen!
I love the messages that you share.
Nikolaevsk Alaska
Hristos a Inviat! Va transmit o imbratisare din Bogdanesti, Suceava, parinte Serafim! Ma bucur foarte tare ca v-am redescoperit recent. Pe vremea liceului, mergeam cu drag duminica, impreuna cu tatal meu, la manastire la Rasca... Acolo v-am intalinit privirea prima data...(probabil erau primi ani ai dvs in monahism). La un moment dat nu v-am mai vazut in obstea manastirii... Minunat e faptul ca in toamna ce a trecut, stand de vorba cu un vecin ce a lucrat la gater acolo, v-am aflat numele :) iar in ianuarie cautand pe RUclips ceva de parintele Seraphim Rose, v-am regasit pe dvs si v-am reascultat cu drag! Pace si bucurie sfanta! -valentin
Adevarat a inviat! Rasca e casa mea de suflet, Valentin, iar familia mea de suflet raman Parintele David, parintele Mihail si toti fratii de la Manastire. Revin 'acasa' in fiecare an, in septembrie, cu un grup de pelerini din Statele Unite. Stam la Schit, in padure, doua saptamani, si mergem peste tot prin Bucovina, sa ne inchinam la manastiri. Te imbratisez in Domnul. Poate reusim sa ne si intalnim anul acesta.
Va multumesc, parinte Serafim! Sa dea Domnul sa ne putem vedea candva. Chiar daca acestea au fost primele cuvinte schimbate cu dvs, parca va stiu de o viata! Doamne ajuta!
P.S. Zilele acestea v-am descoperit si podcast-ul, sa dea Domnul sa continuati si acolo!
Thank you Fr. Seraphim for another powerfully profound, enlightening RUclips video. This topic was one I needed to hear. As usual your comments, which resonate in my brain and heart, tie into so many spiritual principals that I find it necessary to keep repeating this video to try, to just TRY to catch them all and then more importantly to REMEMBER them.
I am a new convert to Orthodoxy, (almost 3 years) and was previously a Protestant, but I could never go back to anything else. My still short journey as been nothing but amazing to me!
As a Christian, I mean well, but I often battle the “Giant of Forgetfulness”. Do you have an antidote for that? God Bless your work!
A sister in Christ, Suzanne Payne
I’ve heard that ‘we fast to help us overcome spiritual forgetfulness’. And I try to be obedient to that discipline. I am also grateful for your teaching videos. When I hear you I hear spiritual TRUTH: I KNOW it, I FEEL it but why is it so fleeting? Why can’t I retain it? I am still so, so woefully short on remembering and especially putting this WISDOM into actual practice. At times I feel my Christian life is like Christ’s parable of the seed that was eaten up by the birds. It scares me, too, because of the scripture, “To whom much has been given, much will be required.”
I have listened to your video again and discovered that ironically the answer to my question on how to combat spiritual forgetfulness was already in what this video was all about: Patience is the beginning!
What a thick headed, impatient, myopic
woman I am! LOL. But my Lord is so good and He’s brought your RUclips videos to me to think about, internalize and hopefully apply. Thank you Fr. Seraphim.
It's impossible to have patience during work. Work is fast today and it need fast responses; customers, coworkers, problems, how is possible to have patience with all of that happening at the same time? Patience it's a luxury that isn't present and will never be in working enviroment.
I appreciate what you're saying, and definitely agree with the need to learn patience.
But then you said that we can't discern between the evil one's voice or God's, yet Jesus clearly said that His sheep know His Voice.
If true Christians who are filled with the Holy Spirit can know Jesus's voice, (as well as understand His will through His Word,) then what do you mean by us not knowing the difference between the voice of the Enemy and the voice of Christ?
Father, does patience mean we don’t do anything (our will, our ideas) while we wait patiently for it to be obvious or that God makes something happen? Or does it mean keep doing the same things until God moves us along?
Dear Cris, patience is not a passive state of being, just like obedience in a monastic setting is not a passive attitude. It takes all our will to remain patient or obedient, and you need a very well-oriented heart and a very well-educated mind in order to not respond and to not abandon. These things seem passive from the. outside, but once you begin to practice them, you soon learn that - internally - they are active approaches to life, and that they require all you will and your intellectual / emotional strength in order to hold on to them. Christ is risen, dear one!
Mull Monastery Truly He is Risen! Thank you Father for taking the time to answer. We appreciate your help very much
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