Can we understand the power of each event in our life?
Life is like a book. Its pages are the events in our life… There’s nothing in our life that wasn’t important, but often we just don’t understand it. Only the bright minds, enlighten by the grace of God can understand the meaning of each event.
Life is complicated. The enemy attacks those who want to be saved but the Mysteries, prayer and holy cross tear down all his wiles and turn them into nothing. Life is like a book. Its pages are the events in our life… There’s nothing in our life that wasn’t important, but often we don’t understand it. Only the bright minds, enlighten by the grace of God can understand the meaning of each event. Errors happen in life as well, often so bad that only God may correct them.
(Translated from Stareţul Varsanufie de la Optina, Colecţia Cuvioşi stareţi de la Optina, Editura Doxologia. p. 280)
