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Take care of your peace - do not watch the news." Run from the news. Another person is addicted to the news, like a heavy smoker from tobacco. News in the morning, during the day, in the evening, news analyst at the end of the week. Well, what is it? Who was killed? Who has trouble? As a sweet treat, a person is taught to consume information about other people's misfortunes. Bloodshed, war, disaster. Someone will say, but how else? Maybe not today otherwise. But the prophet Isaiah writes about this: “... He who covers his ears so as not to hear about bloodshed, and closes his eyes so as not to see evil, he will dwell on the heights. Bread will be given to him, his water will not run dry ”(Is. 33, 15-16). According to the prophet, there is a link between bribes and violence on the one hand and the consumption of negative information on the other. “We are not such a life.,” says the man in his defense. And how will it be otherwise, if the flow of information every day convinces him of this? Like everyone else is doing this, why am I worse? Take care of negative information. Because the one who will save his hearing and vision is promised peace. Bread will be given to him, his water will not run dry.
Archpriest Andrei Tkachev
1 Corinthians 16:23-24 Link: bible-illustrated.blogspot.com/2019/01/1Cor1623.html The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. This illustration was made possible thanks to the generous donation of Samuel Brooke; consider pledging at: www.patreon.com/BibleIllustrated
“Blessed Silence the Savior” (Russian, 13th c)
A person is never entirely bad. Each person has his good and bad points. When you remember his good points, you pray for him, you are moved, your soul feels for him, and you entreat God for him. And as for his bad side, he is not to blame, but our enemy the devil is. Therefore, don't be sad, my child, and don't remember the past. For those things have passed.
+Saint Joseph the Hesychast
The soft life makes people useless. Without toil and struggle, sanctification doesn’t come.
Saint Paisios the Athonite