Everyone who has come to the Orthodox Church to have some white bread, you are wrong. This will be in the end. But before that you will need to work very hard. You will work hard, bearing the cross of the Orthodox asceticism, and the cross of outer sorrows, which the Lord sends us, such as illnesses, loss of relatives, and misunderstandings with the people surrounding us. You will also have the inner cross of your thoughts, which may prove stronger than the outer one, as sometimes thoughts burst one’s head and heart, so that the person says, “I wish my hand or my leg ached, rather than to have this inner pain.”
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