Live Sacramentally, Die Salvifically | Remember You Will Die | Memento Mori | Red Orthodox Cross White Circle | Lightweight Cotton Unisex TeeRepentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. + St John Climacus

Christ in sitting

they just bring their junk out into the bazaar

for a kind of chain it is

The field is the world

and everything else unfolding in front of us

that I may rise again to Him

God created the heavens [Hebrew הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם ha-shamayim: plural] and the earth [Hebrew הָאָֽרֶץ׃ erets: singular]

that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent

My soul is immortal

The specifics of the nature of the soul as defined by Socrates and his student Plato offer a teachable moment into why such matters require direct revelation of God

and according to the ever-memorable author who said: I have not wearied of following Thee

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow