Yes! Repent and He gently, and ever so lovingly, pushes us back “on track.”
To quote a creat hesychastic Father, “I neither fasted, nor kept vigils, nor slept on bare floor, but, to use the Pslmist’s words,’I humbled myself and God saved me.’” [Saint Symenon the New Theologian, 10th century AD)
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Beautiful.
Alas, that pesky
The good that I would do; I don’t;
The bad I wouldn’t do; I do
is sometimes an agonizingly and exceedingly frustrating thing to OVERCOME as quickly and thoroughly in a given area as one would want.
is sometimes an agonizingly and exceedingly frustrating thing to OVERCOME as quickly and thoroughly in a given area as one would want
Yup.