163. К Исихию

We would like for you to come to see us and make us happy with your kind and pleasant company, but as difficult as this is for you due to the inconvenience of the road, the multitude of affairs and the weakness of your health, we would be pleased to find consolation for ourselves in correspondence with you, which can no longer be hindered by either sick health or a mountainous road. Grant us this mercy, easy and costing you nothing, but capable of giving us great pleasure and greatly alleviating the regrettable burden of bodily separation from you. If you give us this consolation, then we will think that we constantly live together with your honesty. True, the feeling of love in itself is capable of arousing this kind of idea, but this idea gains a lot in liveliness with the assistance of correspondence. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: