О бренности естества человеческого

1. The world is friendly, but not friendly in everything! Why are you, like a spinning head over heels, when I would like to go the opposite way, swiftly dragging me away like a small ant, no matter how much I complain about cruel violence - you, so majestic, are dragging me away - a creature of no small importance? I know that you are from God and God’s glory; but I myself was created by the hand of Christ, and made up of both, earthly and heavenly. Although my body is from the earth, my soul is the breath of the great Mind. But what a multitude of disasters I find myself in here and there, disasters that have come either from myself or from the enemy! Like a dolphin accustomed to the sea on land, I die from the air. My life is over, O world; lead the people unharmed! 2. Like birds, or like ships on the sea, we overtake each other - both I and time, having nothing permanent in ourselves. But (in what I have sinned, it does not pass away, but remains; and this is the most unfortunate thing in life. I don’t know what to wish for myself, continuation of life, or death; in both cases, fear overwhelms me. Judge about this for yourself. My life is burdened with sins; and if I die, alas! alas! there is no longer a cure for previous infirmities. If this promises a life in which there are so many sorrows, then it means that death does not deliver from There is an abyss on both sides; what shall we do? Isn’t it better to turn our eyes to You alone and to Your mercy? You might be interested in: