How to turn a negative in a positive. Changing darkness into Grace

[@mullmonastery]

Every time we fall, heads down, hearts up and KEEP GOING FOWARD! Humility and hope will get us out of the depth of hell - step by step, sigh by sigh. Be blessed, dear ones. On behalf of the Monastery, THANK YOU for all the support you are offering us. With God's blessing and your help, we shall survive these difficult times together. May God bless us all!

[@leogomes8909]

Dear father....thank you for giving the good message of Christ....my lots of doubt are answered......thank you...and our Good Lord bless you always........

[@richardwright359]

It has helped me and I'm truly thankful for you and the Lord praise Jesus all the saints and all the orthodox church amen Lord have mercy 😇

[@kpex7509]

It’s sure helping me father thank you so much God bless you and everyone else thank you🖖🏻🐕🧔🏻‍♀️🇺🇸

[@analiesefort3692]

I will pray for you and by the grace of God you’ll pray for me!

[@robinski5031]

Thank you so much for taking time to talk with us and help us to understand many things. You have given me hope. Helped me have faith and to calm down from all this anxiety that is going on in the world right now. Many blessings to you. Again thank you .

[@kpex7509]

Thank you kindly, my prayers are with you. I appreciate your understanding how we all are hurting inside. Holy Father, Our Lord, Jesus Christ our savior, please have mercy on us , the time is here. Love these videos, they give me hope, I feel so much better everyday, I pray every day and night for all .🖖🏻🧔🏻‍♀️🐕🇺🇸

[@aidanpyle]

It helped me Father thank you for your nighttime video. I continue to prayer for you and the Monastery.

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

Even when the negative overflows the positive still flows through

[@wasimmasih1503]

i love you brother .. you are so radiant and shining with the Light of christ..i feel spiritual strength just by looking at you .. i am ex muslim i got baptized in 2018 and my spiritual life has been a rollercoaster.. i have gone through severe spiritual warfare.. but glory be to christ kyrie elieson christe elieson i am in a much better place now and feel close to God please pray for me thanks my name is wasim im from england uk

[@tresageorge2535]

Father Seraphim thank you so much for this talk. I pray that the duration of your migraines become shorter and if God allows disappear completely. This talk touched me but what you said is soo hard to practice. But I will try even if I fail.

[@rosatamayo447]

THANK YOU... IS LATE IN ITALY... BUT, HERE I AM LEASTEING TO YOR LIGHTING WORDS....... I NEED PACIENCE. 🙏🙏🙏

[@giftyachigibah5157]

😭😭😭😭 , I pray for God's grace and strength to be able to overcome my problems that's making me to fall in sins

[@brendanicola4692]

Dear Father, I have just discovered you - Bless you - God is good to help me find the right words that I was searching for….to heal my anxiety. With love and blessings in abundance from a Scottish lassie living in Australia…..xxxxx

[@motherpedar3592]

Mercy father seraphim,I just find your ministry two weeks ago.it is so much wisdoms that I need it to learn.my heart is heavy even I am a psychologist due to ignorance of my immediate family.i try to reach them,only silence and ignorance.my loving Good God knows my heart,I trust him Need pray from you and your. Church please. Persian from Los Angeles.

[@georgyporgy5539]

I am currently suffering & the circumstances leave me feeling ashamed, embarrassed , humiliated, vulgar and fake. These feelings are so strong & overpowering for me I had to turn to God for help. I also prayed the Akathist to my Guardian Angel, when I finished I turned on yt & this video popped up. Both God & my Guardian Angel answered my prayer. I now understand God has been revealing the next layer of ‘snakes’ within my soul & I’ve been resisting taking responsibility for these and instead have allowed myself to be seduced by them. I’m so sleazy. God is so amazing He’s really straightforward I say I want spiritual growth & He delivers. It’s not always good news however the truth when we accept it sets us free. Thank you Father Seraphim ✝️ 🙏 ❤️

[@eugeniuc5339]

When I feel I want to watch something positive, I turn to this channel.

[@Happipost]

I love your way of pronouncing the Christ is risen phrase. For me it sounds both like Christ is reason and Christ is risen, and that is something fascinating!

[@freeman8128]

The Lord's prayer says "Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil".

[@patriciajimenez8587]

Thank you! I am Catholic, I am learning sooo much from this talks on spiritual growth. I really needed to hear this. God has given me the answer I was searching for. I have now peace in my heart. I will keep my head down and my heart up. What a beautiful teaching🙏🏻

[@perameter444]

Christ is risen! We could all pray for your migraine headaches to be removed.

[@mullmonastery]

No, please don't. I already feel guilty enough for trying to control the pain through medication. Migraines don't kill. They just bring pain, but pain can be useful. But, my dear one, that is such a beautiful instinct of your heart - may God bless you for it beyond your hopes.

[@craeddock]

@@mullmonastery may the pain still bless and be more fruitful, then.

[@S.M.Jean-Mahmoud_Ier]

May the pain signal be as hindering and inspiring as a dove's feather, so that it inspires God's Will into you unceasingly.

[@SuperKasper333]

Thank you, Father. I needed this to come to me today. I have been under very heavy spiritual attack and physical attack. Very, very bad this last week or so. Indescribable. But, today, I became so very angry- I work so very hard to be kind, good, compassionate, prayerful- and things thrown at me and my family that cannot be described or believed in the world of the physical. So today, I was so stricken and hurt, that I became angry. I am grateful for your words and insight more than you can imagine. This is an older video, so I know that you now have new glasses. I hope that they have cured your migraines. Peace to you.

[@alexandruflaviusbadescu9606]

Dear Father, I am so grateful because I have recently discovered these amazing videos. Many times I have only darkness into my mind because it’s very hard for me to find my path. I hope that God will show me my path in this world. Also, I am so happy because your wonderful videos help me to improve my English. Doamne Ajută din România 🤗😇🇹🇩

[@michaelunderwood433]

Amen.

[@groundhog4670]

These words came to me years ago and would like to share them with you. " Don't wait to grow old to know what you were told in your younger days when the future then was but a haze." I am an old man now and wished I had taken the words of my Father confessor , my mom, the teachings of the Church to heart. I thank God he has not cast me away and is giving me a chance to do the things that are well pleasing to him. Thank you Father Seraphim for your constant prayers. Christ is risen to save us all.

[@mullmonastery]

That is so beautiful, dear one. May God bless you. I remember an old lady in my church in Bucharest (Maria, may God rest her soul) - once, in my twenties, I was visiting my spiritual father and, as I was coming our of the Altar, she took me aside and said: 'yesterday, I was just like you, as young as you, with all my future before me; do not regret leaving it all behind, because life passes in a moment, there is nothing to regret'. She had such honesty and strength in her voice, I carried that in my heart ever since. And it did help, by the grace of God. May we all be blessed, dear one

[@scottw1602]

I’m humbled by your presence of mind n souls n faith🙏thank u father. Continue to bring peace n love n knowledge to us all

[@franmasawi7366]

Waw🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Thank you for helping me Father.🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@STASHYNSKYI]

May God bless you, greets from Serbia.

[@raymondmcnamara1151]

thank you for your help , yes your sharing reach me , thank you a,en

[@susanvarghese2786]

Thanking God for your sermons.

[@ftweedy5580]

Dear Father. I will pray for the stop of those migraine.

[@alexdaglas9728]

Thank you so Mutch father an amazing subject on temptation and how we can manage it , so interesting this talk help me a lot to put it to practice to be obedience to my family. Can we have another talk ,with examples from the father of the church .Father God bless you Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Have Mercy on us Amen

[@deirdrelewis1454]

God bless you Father. Of course I will pray for you. You have given so much to me and so many others.

[@charlesaugustine3695]

Your advices are valuable.. Praise be to Jesus

[@user-yt2od4hw2x]

Thank you for taking the time to share these jewels with us. It helped correct my attitude and perspective during a difficult moment in my life. God bless each of you there at the Monastery.

[@henok7836]

Thank you father❤

[@anitavandael7973]

Thank You very much for your help. I needed this and also the video for bad thoughts was at the richt moment. God Bless you and I pray for you all.

[@madelcarmencaleromolina2891]

Thank you so much for your encouragement and advice. They are helpful indeed for me. I pray for you.

[@jameskosch4052]

I suspect these talks are primarily extemporaneous, from the heart, but they would make a great collection printed in book form. Perhaps, "Thoughts from the Hebrides." Anyway, thank you so much. I find each of them worthy of hours of contemplation, and years of practice. I appreciate your effort for all of us. Glory to God, glory to Jesus Christ!

[@mullmonastery]

My dear James, you are right, I don't really prepare for these talks. At times, because I know I have to film while I am talking (and because I am most definitely not a film-maker), I try to have an idea of the structure of what I am going to say, so I don't lose my thoughts focusing on what I film. I have a topic, usually suggested in one of these comments, I have a basic idea of how I get from idea 1 to idea 2, and I have a mountain of trust that Christ will fill in the blanks. And yes, your idea about putting these in writing is very good - thank you so much for suggesting it. Christ is risen!

[@debbirhodes7185]

I agree that you should have a book!

[@ms.smith2]

@@mullmonastery yes -- totally agree a book would be quite wonderful or something we could pay for and download online (I live in the US) -- thank you so much for all your wonderful lectures! God Bless! I look forward to watching them all, as I have just found your you tube channel. May the Lord Bless you and all of us :)

[@jovanblom7742]

I know what migraines are. God be with you in you suffering, holy brother.

[@cvgreycat4]

I have just found your channel, your messages are such a blessing. Please pray for me, my life is in shreds, i have lost everything.

[@benbarrow7637]

Thank you so much, Father. I am going through a very trying experience and I know that God almighty is testing me and wants me to evolve into a better human being and a better follower of the word of Christ; but I am scared, for I fear for my fiancé in this emergency, as we just want to live and love but we are facing such an emergency now... and yet I want to surrender and trust, and let ourselves be tested, for I know that from such pain a new blessing will be born, and that we can turn this difficulty into something beautiful. Your words really help me - I have long been wanting to enter the Orthodox Church, and one day in the near future I hope that I may be ready for this experience. Thank you so much for these videos - I have just discovered your channel and you help me so much. Glory to our Lord Jesus, son of God.

[@josephvinodkumar1106]

Thank you father for this video... God bless you father

[@lornadoone8887]

Christ is risen! Yes, Father. This is helpful. As a former migraine sufferer (in childhood), my sympathies! Changes in barometer and dietary sensitivities were likely culprits in setting these off. May the Lord grant you speedy relief! Thank you for your prayers and messages of encouragement. ❤️🙏🏻☦️

[@mullmonastery]

Truly he is risen! Dear Lorna, I have had them since I was a teenager, so they are very much a part of who I am. Nowadays, they occur almost daily, but I can manage with medication. Glory be to God for all things. I am happy, we are all happy at the Monastery that these videos are helpful, even in a small measure. Take good care, dear one

[@deniz4057]

Dear Father, I also have a huge migraine problem for almost every day. It causes not only headache, but also weakness, restlessness, irritability, imbalance in the body and many other symptoms that I cannot count at the moment. My social life is ruined because of this, I can't even go to church most of the time. Sometimes the pain starts in my eyes (I have high myopia and astigmatism) and I can't read anything. However, reading is one of my favorite things. I would be very happy if you could pray for me. Maybe it's a cross, but still, you don't know how happy I would be if God took this burden off me. I believe your prayers will be answered, for I know that "For the unremitting prayer of a just person prevails over many things." JAMES 5:16

[@beegeefan4ever]

Thank you God has blessed me thru your prayers

[@delizzadavila3657]

Prayers for you 🙏 ❤ 💛 May Gid Bless you and heal you from your migraine headaches. The message isn't lost on me.... this is what I needed to hear today. God is good!

[@gerri49]

Amazing father thank you. God bless you 🙏 ❤

[@lorierobertson7447]

Thank you Father for your spirituality it's so needed.. God bless you

[@debbirhodes7185]

Your love always comes through!

[@mullmonastery]

May Christ, Who Is Love, bless us all dear Debbi.

[@janeself9827]

I am new to your channel. I am an Orthodox Christian. Your words meted my heart. Thank you for your profound sermon. ✝️

[@sheryyoung]

Thank you Father. You have given me help. My head is down and my heart is up. My prayers are with you and the monastery.

[@denisiageladas2968]

Dear Father, Bless your parents for having you. Thank you for all the videos you are making for us. You bring me much comfort. Please order some magnesium powder suppliment for your migraines. There is a brand called "Eagle" that you can order online. This will help you very much. Aldo, take one iron vitamin tablet each Sunday. Blessings to you always. Denisia🌻

[@vidatas1552]

Your message is from heart to heart, from soul to soul, and God knows how this is useful...thank you for the sacrifice of your life to be where you are and do what you do..You took thorns ( recorded through outside & inside storm) , and we have got the flower...thank you, thank you...May God bless you & reward you with multiple blessings....

[@kaytilauridsen287]

Praise be to God for your videos... He has moved in me through your words

[@annettefowler4704]

Thank you, thank you, thank you i pray for you and the monastery, hello from France.

[@RaluDaniela]

Mult mă bucur că v-am găsit! Vă înțeleg și vă văd fiecare cuvințel indiferent de limba în care ne împărtășiți din ființa dumneavoastră! Binecuvântați fie toți Preoții lui Hristos în Veci!

[@brentgarner3143]

Glory to the Father Son and Holy Spirit everytime I listen and watch I'm encouraged and challenged to keep on keeping on the Christian walk thank you Jesus for Mull monistary and Fr. Seraphim

[@celesteyurek577]

Father, God bless you. I love your teaching.

[@alisonorland6827]

Thank you Father for your wisdom. I have been helped today. I wanted to say I feel for you with your dust of hurt from others. I think God can transform this dust directly, like this. When we are hurt by lack of love in the world, if we receive the hurt that is within us in our hearts as dust and lay it before God he will take the burden of pain and as we grieve he will lighten it with his love. He will heal the harm with his love and his words of love to us. Then though we still bear some sadness we glow with his love and the sadness doesn't hurt so much at all. Indeed if we complete our grieving in the presence of God the sadness will be replaced by joy. I think God loves to transform the dust of our pain in this way.

[@marinaknife4595]

Dear Father - thank you so much for your talks - only found them a couple of nights ago & know it was an ANSWER TO MY PRAYERS RECENTLY. I remember to thank God for this Blessing & ask him to Bless you & your community. Thank you so much for uploading these instructive talks.

[@vickydalauta8355]

Thank you Fr. What you’re saying is true;) God bless you more and your community ❣️🙏📿

[@annerudd860]

Thank you so much!

[@endercat5293]

Thank you.💜

[@davida7595]

New to this station but being blessed and consoled by the teaching... The love of God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Spirit Fr Seraphim.. ☦️

[@j.bethsteeley6483]

It is hard to see in the dark and we all experience migraines of one type or other. It is hard to understand the purpose of God in these times and thank you for helping me to clarify a part of the “ laboratory “ process. Praying for your complete healing, mind , body and spirit. Please do the same for us.

[@christinerisler1786]

Thanks coach🙏

[@victorinam4106]

"Capul plecat , inima sus si inainteaza!" sau cum ar zice alt parinte"Nu ai voie sa zaci!"...Domnul sa ne ajute, si pt.rugaciunile sfintiilor voastre, sa facem fie si cate un pas mic inainte in fiecare zi.

[@Minicicily]

Amen, the right time I needed help..Thank You 🙏

[@mhpupacios]

Bless Father and Thank you. You are in my prayers and also the Nuns and Monks of the Monastery - in my morning prayers and whenever I use my prayer rope as the little shell passes through my fingers. Please pray for me also , this vlog was important to me so thank you - I lost my job last year and have still been unable to find another and my family is reliant on my parents who at their age should not have to be supporting me.

[@vicnababa]

I pray for your health. I too suffer from migraines they are truly awful and I completely understand how you are feeling coming out of a migraine headache. Perhaps the coming storm has something to do with it. On your talk to us today , thank you once again for your wise encouragement. Keep well Christ has Risen!

[@mullmonastery]

Truly He is risen, dear one! It is perfectly possible that the storm does affect my migraines, although I have them most days. I've had them for decades now, so I've developed ways to live with them. They are my silent friends - when they come, we hide together in a dark part of the house and we spend some time together 😌. God bless you for your care. I am grateful to God that you find use in these videos.

[@jamesmikkelson7636]

Dear Father, as others have already said, your talk in the dead of night with a storm looming spoke directly to the condition of my heart, and what I have been experiencing with the discovery of the "snakes in my heart." Thank God that for the temptations that shed the light on those forgotten, ignored and shameful areas of my life I would have rather left hidden. I will take the word--keep my head down and my heart up. Thank you Father. You are in my prayers daily along with the monastery.

[@mullmonastery]

That is so kind of you - it helps me to know that what we do helps you in any way. Otherwise, it all becomes just an empty and wasteful effort, and that is the last thing I want to do in my life. May Christ bless us all, may He tell mum heart what and when and how to say, so that those words find the hearts that need them most and help them in some way. We are all One in Christ, the pain of one affects us all.

[@mabeldsouza5631]

Thank you father for the enlightening talks which brings peace to my heart.

[@AmericanOrthobro1776]

Thank you Father for this wonderful message. I know I have a habit of seeing the darkness in this world as well as darkness within myself. Especially after succumbing to the passions. Thank you for reminding me that even though there is darkness. We can see that darkness turned into light. Thank you.

[@mullmonastery]

That darkness has killed some, but the same darkness has saved many, dear one. I think about this and I understand that the end result does not depend so much on the darkness itself, but on my own reaction to it. This is why I entrust myself to the experience of the Church, because this experience comes from the spiritual struggles of the very ones who have survived the darkness and have learnt to turn it into Grace. May God bless us all, dear one.

[@NikosThDr]

Thank you father!

[@janinefazioli9463]

Thank you Father. Your video did indeed help me In a time of need and I was able to feel the love you have in your heart for others. May God bless you. ❤️🙏🏼

[@amybastock8370]

Thank you, Father. Your talks are ALWAYS helpful. I’m so sorry to hear you suffer from migraines. They are truly awful. I will pray for you and I will ask Our Mother to pray for you. ❤️📿

[@mullmonastery]

Thank you, dear Amy, that is very kind of you and I honestly appreciate your prayer. I have grown so used to my migraine, that I cannot imagine my life without them. I've had them since I was 16, so they have really become part of who I am. They come and they go. Like the storms. And - like the storms - they do some damage, but they also have hidden treasures in them. May God bless us all, dear one.

[@nabelbinyameen1855]

Jesus christ is the king of the Kings and the only way is in Jesus 🙏🇦🇺

[@christiancelticwarrior1222]

God Bless you Brother 🙏🏻

[@jamesgillard7113]

Thank you, Father, for this edifying talk. It helped me a lot

[@mullmonastery]

I am so grateful, dear James. Thank you for taking the time to write this comment - it matters to us to see that we are not just waiting time. May Christ bless us all.

[@laraanderson7736]

Thank you, once again, for practical advice that is incremental, digestible and timely. Praying, as always, for you and the monastery.

[@vickykentrota9031]

Thank you for these truly precious videos 🎀🎀God bless you Father 🙏🙏

[@mullmonastery]

God bless you for your kindness, dear Vicky. I do pray there is something useful in them Be safe, be protected, dear one.

[@a.e.5075]

God bless you, Father Seraphim! I feel your message answers all the questions Ive been struggling with lately. Thank you! It is the third time I am playing the video. Listening it again and again.

[@mullmonastery]

Dear one, that is so kind of you to say and it makes me so happy that you find these videos useful. You have no idea how much I agonise over these videos, afraid that they serve no one and that we are just wasting our time. Thank you for your encouragement - every good word counts, every good word helps us move forward.

[@a.e.5075]

@@mullmonastery Please continue to post. I pray God allows me to thank you in person one day!!

[@alisonorland6827]

@@mullmonastery oh my friend nothing offered from the heart and from wisdom and truth ever goes to waste. It is like the word of God which never returns to him empty. You are a great encouragement

[@LejlaEnigma91-oy1mj]

So encouraging 🙏 the way you speak and think very wise

[@elioftheforest]

Thank you Father, your blessing. The Lord always gives you utterance when I need it most. Pray for me if you could, Elijah. I keep the monastery in my prayers, whatever inkling i can offer

[@mullmonastery]

May God bless you, dear Elijah. What a beautiful name you have, what a wonderful protector! Thank you for your prayers, dear one - may God return your blessings a hundredfold.

[@patriciah3235]

Truly He is risen! Father, be assured of my prayers.🙏 Thank you for the truth about what we must do. In an immense way your messages help those of us detached from church family, the mysteries, our spiritual fathers.

[@mullmonastery]

Glory be to God, that is all I could have hoped for. It is always humbling to me to see how I am pushed into doing something that feels so unnatural to me, only to discover how wrong I would have been to follow what feels comfortable to me instead of what I am called to do. May Christ bless and protect you, dear one.

[@MariaNunes-in3ty]

Indeed He is risen! I hope the storm is over and hasn't caused too much trouble. I'll keep on praying for you and the whole Monastery. Thank you again for caring so much, and finding a way to get your teachings to us. They are light in this more than long quarentine...🌷🌷🌷

[@mullmonastery]

The storm is still going, dear Maria. We hope it will be over by tomorrow night or Monday morning. We are used to them, but they feel even more strange when you live on an island and you also go through a lockdown. It's like a third layer of isolation. May God bless and protect us all.

[@user-vd9hg7st3b]

Dear Father, These chats have profound effects on me, thank you for them

[@nataliyabanks]

Hello, Fr. Serafim! In July, I believe by Lord's will, accidentally I became one of your followers. I am very greatful for your plentyful practical advice and clearing some difficult issues in relations with people and events of human world. I was wondering, if you able at all read and understand Russian language? (I was hoping to ask your opinion in some information shared in videos by Russian priest)

[@johnanaipakos7132]

God bless you and keep you and the Monastery well🙏✝️⛪️

[@mullmonastery]

May God bless you for your love, dear John, and may He guide and protect us all. Christ is risen!

[@JumpRopeQueen]

💜💜💜

[@finlaysampson7532]

Thank you for this encouragement father

[@user-sarasara]

Truly He is risen! Thank you always for these videos...they do offer a lot.

[@mullmonastery]

Thank you for saying so, dear one. It is a real act of faith to pour your heart out in front of a camera, with no real knowledge or control of who will receive your heart and how they will treat it. May God bless you for your kind words.

[@paisialee294]

Dear Father Seraphim I have been following these talks for awhile now. And want to let you know, they have been very helpful. Not sure if I know what sin is but I do think (increasingly) I have many sins and God knows them all. But still I keep judging others... Pls pray for me Father I can stop this. See myself. And start to 'repent in ashes and dust', like wonderful St Job... You blessing.

[@mullmonastery]

My dear Paisia, I remember reading somewhere (I think in St John Chrysostom) that judging our brother is a deadly sin because it is the only sin in which we want to 'overthrow' God from His Throne of Judgement. Since God alone can judge, when we judge our brother, we take upon ourselves the role of God, we sit in His Throne and act like Him. I remember reading that and shivering to my heart. May God be merciful on us all. Christ is risen, dear one!

[@paisialee294]

He is Risen indeed! Thank you so much Father for reply.

[@irene1234]

What about judging ourselves? Is that playing God as well or are we supposed to judge ourselves?

[@alisonorland6827]

@@irene1234 not sure judging ourselves is helpful. If we welcome the spirit of God which is the spirit of truth we will soon see within us things we wish weren't there. But then we should hold them straight to God for his help. That's more useful.

[@debbirhodes7185]

You are always so helpful to me. You always seem tp say the exact thing I need to hear. Thank you! I was hurt and betrayed by my church leaders recently and I’ve been trying to give it to God and be open to where He may bring something good out of this evil.

[@mullmonastery]

Evil rarely comes from people, dear Debbi. It almost always comes from the evil one, who finds a way to confuse what is imprinted in all of us - the clarity and beauty of the Image of Christ. This is why forgiveness is so important, because it can 'glue' back together what the actions of the evil one have broken. We are all One, we belong together in Christ. May He bless us all, dear one.

[@christinachamley3365]

You’re the best Father! Thank you for your blessings and your wisdom 🙏🏼 God bless you so much

[@mullmonastery]

Dear Chris, after the last week, I most definitely do not feel like 'the best'. But I thank you for your kindness - it gives me courage to keep working. May we all be blessed, dear one.

[@KINGOFGLORY-40]

Indeed He is Risen!!! In your immense goodness O Lord God help me in all things Father is saying. I'm weak Father and through your voice I'm trying to be a true Orthodox Christian and not a fake the way I've been. It's a rough tough struggle for me as I've always been horribly mischief in all things. I love you, Please pray for me Father

[@mullmonastery]

The greater the fall one survives by. the grace of God, dear one, the greater the love one feels for the One Who Saved us. The greater the sin which was forgiven, the greater the gratitude and the love. Sin can be a tool for good, if we use the memory of it in a good way - it can feed our love, our gratitude, our humility. Always have faith, always look forward, dear one.

[@refela217]

Thank you so much for this talk. It has helped me a lot.

[@mullmonastery]

That makes me and everyone at the Monastery very happy, dear Karen. After putting so much work in this, it helps very much to know it was worth it. May we all be blessed, dear one.

[@RTUvideoproductions]

Amen!!!!That's really helpful!

[@adrianthomas1473]

Thank you for these wise words - a good way to view ourselves.

[@aeolaus]

Thanks for the talk Father and hope the storm didn't cause any harm!

[@mullmonastery]

Storms come and go here, dear one. They feel strange, especially at this time, like yet another layer of isolation - we live on an island, we are in a monastery, we go through a lockdown and now, we also have a storm. Glory be to God for all things. Take good care, dear one.

[@mhpupacios]

Bless Father It does help ,so thank you as always. You are in my prayers along with all of the Nuns and Monks Kissing your right hand In Christ Mark

[@mullmonastery]

Christ is risen, dear Mark! Thank you for taking the time to write these words - we all ned a bit of courage and strength to keep going forward, and the support of those around us matters so much, even in this 'digital' community which we are slowly building together. May we all be blessed, dear one.