Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all‐ embracing love.
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Fr. Zossima on the Fear of Sin
Brothers, have no fear of men’s sin. Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth.
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Three Poems
Original Poetry from Dietrich Balsbaugh
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Dryden on the Fear of Death
Distrust, and darkness, of a future state, Make poor Mankind so fearful of their Fate. Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
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Melville on Faith and Death
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
