“After this incident, my swearing was cut off.” Police officer storytranslated

Deacon Dionisy AKHALASHVILI

Once I got into a conversation with a big police chief, a parishioner of our Intercession Cathedral in Kamyshlov. And he shared how difficult it was for him to fight one sin, until one incident suggested a method that really worked: “It’s not that I didn’t consider swearing a sin, I even thought that this way you convey your thoughts more convincingly to others. For a long time I could not get rid of this habit of expressing myself. Until I began to ask God to cleanse me from this dirt. You take communion and ask God for help to improve. And the Lord showed me how wonderful it is to get by without swearing.

One day I was leaving the church after evening service and the bells were ringing. At this time, some drunk man entered the church fence, people from the service were coming towards him, joyful, happy. And he scolds them, saying that they are ringing the bells, making noise, disturbing their rest on the day off, not allowing them to watch TV in peace!

I approach him, thinking, how can I politely talk to him when he waves his hands and swears at us with the last words? I prayed to myself that the Lord would teach. And then, unexpectedly for himself, he explained everything to him calmly and kindly. I don’t understand how I can do this...