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“The Lord will keep you from all evil; [The Lord] will preserve your soul” (Ps. 120:7). The One who does not allow you to be exposed to even small troubles and extends His care and providence to such an extent will, of course, protect you even more from everything else. Great sadness recedes and passes away at the beck of God, which is something that people cannot have. A person often delivered from one evil, but could not, or could, but did not want to; and the almighty and all-powerful right hand of God, no matter what disaster happens, can stop it, can deliver and free you from everything. “The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from now on and forever” (Ps. 120:8) (2). Don't be insensitive and ungrateful; It is not possible for anyone to always be in sorrow; [human] nature cannot bear this. But since we always want to be in joy, we think that we are always in sadness. In addition, since we quickly forget joyful and pleasant things, but we always remember sad things, we say that we are always in sorrow. It is impossible for a person by nature to always be sad (7). The power of sadness is great, and we need a lot of courage in order to firmly confront this mental illness and, while benefiting from it - since there is something useful in it, - to avoid everything unnecessary. Precisely, only then is it good to grieve when we or others sin; and when we fall into ordinary human misfortunes, then sadness is useless (9). You might be interested in: