Confession…

“All our struggles and efforts have to make is humble in the end. You were never a saint but the grace of God protected you and you thought that state was your own. That’s why grace left you, to make you realize who you are. However, graceful return with confession. In the future never be embarrassed to confess anything to your elder and always firmly keep the thought that, ‘I am nothing. Whatever that I have, it is from God to the prayers of my elder. If grace deserts me I will immediately fall again.’”

Elder Arsenios
~Elder Arsenios the Cave-Dweller

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