Bishop Constantianis Kosmas: God speaks in the silence of wordstranslated

There come moments in your life when you dissolve internally. Anger makes you not recognize yourself; to want to externalize your indignation, but, at the same time, to try to hold back, so as not to lash out at people and say words that will hurt and breed malice. The balances you have to keep are so delicate; otherwise it is very easy to deviate from your course and tear down in an instant what you have built with effort, pain and tears. Bishop Constantianis Kosmas

There are times when you look for peace, but you can't find it anywhere. The situations are so unfavorable that the confusion of the mind sometimes exceeds your strength, trapping yourself in a dead end. A dead end that brings you to the end of the thread, on the verge of despair and giving up on your spiritual path.

As St. Isaac of Syria notes: there is no man who was not strengthened in the time of his tribulation - there is no man who was not weakened in the time of his trial.

The people you are called to minister to are so difficult, so unpredictable. They live in a world of their own,...