Holy, sanctified and sanctifying portraits or how do we spend, spend and spend?!…
Yes, I, for one, miss them very much, our great Romanian, contemporary Spiritual Fathers or Fathers, whom I, for one, remember, honor, value and read, watch or listen to (the recordings photo, audio, video with them) whenever I remember them, with much love and with holy appreciation or admiration, invoking them and evoking them!…
Especially since, I don’t know why, but I have the feeling or the perception that, lately, the dust of oblivion has fallen on some of their sanctities!
In other words, every time we hear and find out that someone has passed to the eternal and heavenly abodes, we should come back and wake up, to reality, as if from a deep sleep!…
Yes, the moment/event of someone’s death should be, for us, for each of us, an occasion for serious introspection and deep meditation, in other words, an event like this should make us think, in a very serious way!.. .
Not for nothing, all the Holy Fathers of the Church exhort (us) to always have the thought, the mind and the conscience of death – as being the wisest teacher who can (re)bring each of us to life, to true life , to the true state, to authentic living!…
Let’s remember his life, living, passing and partying in or through this world!
In moments like these, good people, we must think, deeply, seriously and responsibly, about the way and the way we spend, spend, and spend ourselves, each one of us, in and through this life, on this earth !…
In such moments it is good to remember the word: „after deed (after life) and reward!”
Let us ask ourselves, in the most honest way: what is the use of so much agitation, so much stress, so much contortion, so much stiffness, so much tension and pressure, daily, quotidian, mundane, of what use, brothers, of what use?!…
The Latins used to say: „carpe diem!” – „live the moment!” We Christians must say: „cherish the moment!”, every moment and every moment, every encounter, anywhere and anytime, with our brother, colleague, neighbor and fellow man, any moment, any state, any chance or opportunity , as being unique, the first and the last, therefore unrepeatable and, who knows, maybe even the last, because we are not the masters of life or death!…
In other words, let’s be very mindful of how we pass, how we spend, how we spend them and how we spend ourselves, in this life and through this world, (de)limited, temporal, provisional, transitory and temporary, well knowing that „the city /our kingdom is not here, on earth, but beyond, in heaven, waiting for the one who will come/will be!…”
If we don’t do this, people , we will regret it sooner or later and, more than that, we will lose everything sooner or later and this will be one, fatal, lethal and, at the same time, an extremely painful one!…
So, come on brothers, let’s be very careful when we meet someone: let’s look at him well and, with much love and with chosen love, regardless of who he is, who was or who will be, let’s rejoice of any meeting with anyone, as on a great holiday and (of) chosen day or wonderful celebration, let’s appreciate and live all these moments as gifts of great use, full of gain and happiness because, who knows, maybe tomorrow, you won’t be able to meet him anymore and he won’t (anymore) be able to see you or look at you!…
Because, however, how many times does it happen to us, that we miss someone so much and can no longer spend time with them at all, except in stories and stories, memories, poses and photos, and simply , we are gripped by bitterness, sadness, grief and anger!…
Yes, you will reproach me for being very pessimistic, gloomy and skeptical , and you have every right to do so, but, unfortunately, what I am telling you, here and now, is so real(ist) and, at the same time, it is so true, much too loud or very true!…
Also, at the end of this meditation, I want to say and ask you something else: Come, finally, good people, let us value, honor and appreciate (or admire) our brothers, our peers, parents, heroes and clergy as long as they are here, alive, with us, contemporaries with us, living and passionate, with us (or for us), not after they have left us or from us!.. .
By the way, in the end, I don’t even know who left first (the first): they, from us or from us or we from them and, from them!…
In other words, we, the people, have (somewhat) divided (and separated) into: (un)pretentious, (un)precious, (un)precious and despised, into: known, unknown and recognized, into: named, named and re-named, in: concrete, discreet and indiscreet and so on!…
As such, be very careful, in which category and pose do we find ourselves!
Therefore, good people, what you do is done to you, that is, how you spend and how you spend it, so (we) will spend it too!
May God rest those who have gone beyond, and may God strengthen us and save us, those who are still here!
May God rest them, all of them, in His Heaven that does not set and does not set, place them with the righteous and count them with His saints!…
May their evocation, invocation, memory and commemoration be eternal! Amen!…
Stelian Gombos
https://steliangombos.wordpress.com/
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