However, there are some books to read which should get no arms and even legs, a soul and a mind. The books are very helpful not just to survive, but to understand the current situation.
a Series “ZHZL” “Young guard”. Vyacheslav Bondarenko. “Father John (Krestiankin)”. One of the most revered elders in Russia, the great sage, who died in 95 years.
Ivan the Peasant lived almost a century. In 1917 he was ten years old, and all the persecution of the Bolsheviks on the Church he saw and experienced. Thus until the last minutes of life he repeated his main commandment: “Children, love one another! It is a commandment of the Lord, if you’ll keep her, so pretty.”
I have always been interested in the figure of this incredible man. And when I wrote my novel “Salt of the sky”, the output of which is suspended a pandemic, about two priests – old and young – about two views on Faith, I was inspired by the figure of the old man. But, after reading the book Bondarenko, I realized that I know nothing about it.
What is unique life incredible man? Example? The opportunity to think about yourself and about your time? Comfort, when you realize that the idea looks like such a great man?
When I say in my lectures, write books, just explain your moms calling the child could choose for themselves in seven to ten years – mom doesn’t believe. A small van with six (!!!) years served as Sexton in the Church, that is, performed a serious job in assisting the priest. Again: six years!
In ten (!!!) he was asked to bless it to the monks. In ten years! He felt a craving for the service and just walking down the road which felt. John survived all the horrors that could survive the priest: destroyed his teachers, robbed and blew up the Temples; his life was war, famine, arrest; short, in thick glasses, he felled trees in the camp; it was not always possible to find a common language with ecclesiastical superiors; he had been ill for many diseases, but never – never! not disappointed in what they heard the call of God. Never regretted about the chosen path.
this, of course, is not only about the clergy. This is because the principle is this: feel your way, in other words – do what you love to do and this way you will not fail, no matter how difficult.
We rarely think about the fact that all, without exception, the great people we know and respect, are those who have chosen their own way, focusing on their own desires, and went through it.
Father John never complained. Whatever it is – took for granted. In the logging it was very hard work: this is low, very Nebogatikova adding the man had to hang on the tree was cut down and guide his fall so that it landed where it should. All of this – the cold and biting wind.
Father Ira��n then claimed that he never, in those days, was not to him so close to God. If you think about it – it is clear: this life that no one else – only the person and God, and hope isn’t one.
Reading a book by Vyacheslav Bondarenko, I was once again convinced that people are, among other things, are divided into those who happily feels like a victim, and someone who always feels the Builder.
the Victim is a condition in which to fall the easiest. “What can I do? Such circumstances… That the… That coronavirus – isolation… I’m scared… what to do? No one helps me… I lost my job and now I will die of hunger…”
the victim’s Condition does not require anything, anything at all. The victim is always convinced that she is innocent: so there were circumstances.
Builder understands that God (or fate, whichever you prefer) offers some circumstances, and these circumstances should be used to build something. To turn the cholera epidemic in Boldino autumn, as Pushkin did, or the fascist concentration camp – in the research laboratory, as the great psychologist Victor Frankl.
It’s like the famous parable: one person – the victim – just hauling the stones, and another Builder builds the Temple. Like, the same thing they do, but their feelings, and, therefore, the reality they create is different.
Reading the story absolutely tragic and completely wonderful life of FR John, I was once again convinced that humility is the quality is very strong, and not weak people.
a Humble person is not one who lowers his hands, but one who is taking any circumstances, use them for construction.
of Course, now it’s hard for people – who can argue? Still, we much easier than felling trees felling trees, isn’t it? And who hinders us to be the builders of yourself and your life?
I Suspect that these words may seem high-sounding and pretentious: what the author is himself a preacher think he is? No, My God! But the quarantine, I think the time for serious reflection about the essence. These reflections can be utility hysteria that is spreading.
Well, my soul and mind now came to the book by Vyacheslav Bondarenko, “Father John (krestiankin)”. This book proves that there are no such circumstances which would allow the person to remain human. To be a Builder or a victim is a choice that can make every one of us.
Sorry for the pathos, but it’s the truth.
