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Sunday, July 23, 2023

A Piece Of Dry Bread

 "Once I asked an American who visited me at the Kalvyi  'What has this great nation of your accomplished?'  

'We went to the moon', he replied.

'How far is that?' I continued.

'Oh, perhaps half a million kilometers away', he replied.

'How many millions of dollars did you spend to get there?'

'Since 1950,' he said, 'we haver spent rivers of dollars.'

'Did you get to God?  How far is he?'

'God', he said, 'is very, very far.'

'Well,' I replied, it only takes us a piece of dry bread to get to Him!'

- Paisos the Athonite, With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man

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4 comments:

  1. Nylon126:59 AM

    A simple phrasing TB yet it covers so much. Excellent choice for this day.

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    1. Toirdhealbheach Beucail9:36 AM

      Thanks Nylon12. I picked this book up in one of the monasteries of The Great Meteora as it was one of a few of the non-tourist books in English. There is a lot of wisdom in it.

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  2. John Wilder10:03 PM

    But yet He is close.

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