“Woe to our times: we now depart from the narrow and sorrowful path leading to eternal life and we seek a happy and peaceful path. But the merciful Lord leads many people from this path, against their will, and places them on the sorrowful one. Through unwanted sorrows and illnesses we draw closer to the Lord, for they humble us by constraint, and humility, when we acquire it, can save us even without works, according to St. Isaac the Syrian.”
+ St. Macarius of Optina
Gladsome Lights 
Whether we like it or not – this is so true.
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Apt words for today, Tiw’s* day,
and not just any old Tuesday
* “to the Anglo-Saxons as he was the god of war, swordplay and the sky” wiki
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God knows best. Whatever keeps me close to Him, this I want.
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Peace like a river. Politics are a difficult subject for me…just wish regular people did more, government less.
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Oh, a peaceful path. Yes.
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Would that it were true; love this.
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