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1. Good and bad news about spiritual guides
How comforting it is to hear what you write about Rev. Alexandra, what you noticed about spiritual mentors is just as sad or even more sad. What are you going to do?! It's the same story everywhere. - Rise up! Write it off, Lord! But the Lord sees - and who will set the measure of His long-suffering and who will discern the plans of His world rule, incomprehensible (2, p. 6)?!
Our job is to act to the best of our ability to build up our neighbors, taking special care to keep ourselves in good confession and in good rules of life. Society, it seems, has never been sacred as a whole. Of the 12 closest, one was a traitor, another fell by renunciation, the rest fled. And are we doing God’s work? Doesn't God Himself do it in us and through us? Let us offer ourselves to Him or hand us over as an instrument, if He wants to do something through us (2, p. 6).
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