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The Lord is everything to me: He is the strength of my heart and the light of my mind, He moves my heart to every good, He strengthens it, He gives me good thoughts, He is my peace and joy, He is my faith, hope and love, He is my food, my drink, my clothing, my dwelling. Just as a mother is everything to a baby—mind, will, sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, food, drink, clothing, hands, and feet—so the Lord is everything to me when I completely surrender to Him. But - alas for me! - when I fall away from the Lord, then the devil takes possession of me, and if I had not turned the eyes of my heart to the Lord, if in the cramped conditions of the enemy I had not cried out to the Lord for help, then the devil would have been, as sometimes happens, all kinds of evil for me: anger, and despondency, and relaxation perfect for all good, and despair, and hatred, and envy, and stinginess, and blasphemy, evil and nasty thoughts, contempt for everyone - in a word, it happens with my mind, my will, sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, hands and feet. Therefore, trust in the Lord: He is present and infinite in holiness, power, goodness, mercy, bounty, wisdom (6). Marvelously and powerfully, the Lord rules the material worlds through His wisdom, through His word. Just as particles of an animal’s body, wood, grass, stone are held together by cohesion, so all worlds are held together by the forces and laws invested in them. Just as the soul carries the body and animates it, so God bears the world, enlivening it with His Spirit; It is not for nothing that man is called a small world. What an insignificant web is the world for God! What an insignificant web my body is! And all wisdom is in every point of matter, and everything is held together by wisdom, by the eternal laws of wisdom. O wisdom, wisdom! We all owe our existence to you - your good Culprit! My death, my decay or destruction clearly proves how insignificant I am in Your web (6). The Lord is the perfect Possessor and Master of all creation; and we know that all creation listens to His commands, His will: Angels and people with a meaningful heart, heaven, earth and everything that is on them, even hell and everything that is in it. He commands the Angels - and they quickly march to fulfill His will; He commands them to be the guardians of reborn people - and they guard their entire lives and do not transgress His commands in anything; commands the sky - and it either gives rain and dew, or snow and hail, or withholds them; He commands the winds and water - and they obey Him; commands the fire - and it obeys Him; commands the sun - and it eclipses or shines on the entire sunflower, warming and illuminating it; commands the earth - and it vegetates with all kinds of plants, forbids it to grow - and ceases; commands the waters to pour uncontrollably onto the earth - and they pour like a global flood; He commands the winds - and they blow, rage and are destructive for our sins; commands the sea whale to devour the prophet Jonah - and he is ready to catch; commands the fish to fill the net of His disciples - and it runs and runs, obedient to the command of the Creator; commands the dead man to rise, to come to life - and death flees from the person, and life appears; commands the disease to leave the patient - and the disease runs away, and the patient gets up, vigorous and healthy; commands the demons - and they obey unquestioningly. Great is the name of the Lord, praiseworthy is the name of the Lord, glorified is the name of the Lord! He can transform His creatures as He pleases: for example, water into blood, water into wine, a staff into a living serpent or again a staff into a living plant, a man into a pillar, like Lot’s wife, a snake into gold and again gold into a snake, as the Lord created through the prayer of His saint Spyridon of Trimifunt. But especially the power, the power of the Lord is manifested in the fact that He transforms a sinner into a holy and chosen vessel, restores one who has fallen through a terrible fall, resurrects and renews a corrupted one, revives a dead person in soul and body, and brings one who has fallen into eternal death into eternal life. This is a miracle of miracles; this reveals the infinite goodness, wisdom and omnipotence of the Lord of creation; or else that He Himself, being the beginningless, incontainable Lord of creation, deigned and was able to become our Man for the sake of salvation, “and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14), having lived with man and in everything being like man, except for sin (6). The Lord is my being, the Lord is deliverance from eternal death, the Lord is my eternal belly, the Lord is cleansing and deliverance from many sins and my sanctification, the Lord is strength in my weakness, space in my crampedness, hope in my cowardice and despondency. The Lord is a life-giving fire in my coldness, the Lord is light in my darkness, peace in my confusion, the Lord is an intercessor in my temptations. He is my thinking, my desire, my activity, He is the light of soul and body, food, drink, my clothing, my shield, my weapon. Everything is Lord for me. My soul, love and thank the Lord unceasingly! (6). The Lord is so holy, so simple in His holiness, that one evil or unclean thought deprives us of Him, sweet and most sweet, pure and pure peace and light of our souls. From here all the saints are light, all one fragrance, like the light of the sun, like the purest air. Lord, give 19 me this simple shrine! (6). Before His incarnation, the Lord allowed humanity to experience all the bitterness of sin, all its powerlessness to eradicate it, and when everyone desired the Deliverer, then He appeared, the all-wise, all-powerful Doctor and Helper. As they began to hunger and thirst for truth when it became scarce, then the eternal Truth came (6). The Lord is life in my death, strength in my weakness, light in my darkness, joy in my sorrow, boldness in my cowardice, calm in my confusion, goodness in my prayer, glory in my dishonor and deliverance from my dishonor. Wonderfully, powerfully, quickly He intercedes and saves me in my troubles and difficulties, in my hobbies. When I cry to Him for my salvation, invisible enemies flee from me after their dirty tricks within me, and I tangibly recognize the saving right hand of my God, my Savior, above me. Glory, thanksgiving to the Shepherd and Visitor of my soul! (6). The Lord God is the all-desired Being, he is the very goodness, love, imperishable beauty, indescribable fragrance, the most joyful Light, sanctifying the faithful, the most holy Simplicity and Truth; all rational creatures naturally strive for Him, but sin, which entered into our nature, perverted the whole order and turned the minds and hearts of people away from God (10). Your Lord is Love: love Him and all people in Him as His children in Christ. Your Lord is Fire: do not be cold in heart, but burn with faith and love. Your Lord is Light: do not walk in darkness and do nothing in the darkness of the mind without reasoning and understanding or without faith. Your Lord is the God of mercy and generosity: be you too a source of mercy and generosity for your neighbors. If you do this, you will receive salvation with eternal glory (12). The Lord, in His infinite mercy, not suffering to see the human race tormented by the devil, came to free us from slavery to him and from eternal torment. And in order to free us from working for the enemy, to whom we surrendered and are surrendering ourselves, He wanted to become for us, in humanity, the most obedient servant of His heavenly Father, to whom we became and now are constantly disobedient, and in human flesh and human soul, with human powers, supported by the deity, to defeat the devil-tempter, to whom we so easily surrendered into captivity and are now surrendering ourselves through our sins. Further, in order to free us from the eternal torment of hell, to which our immortal souls, captive by the devil, should have justly been subjected, He, the eternal God, wanted to endure our eternal torment Himself as His human being (14). Dazhd (church glory) - give, give. You might be interested in: