Lord is standing at the edge of your existence waiting for you

At the edge of your heart the Lord is standing with a tall candle that burns without smoking or melting. The Lord is standing and waiting at your invitation, to bring the candle into your heart and enlighten it, to burn up all the fear in your heart, all its selfish passions and all its ugly desires, and to drive out of your heart all the smoke and foul stench.

At the edge of your mind the Lord is standing with His wisdom and with His tongue, ready, at your invitation, to enter into it and drive out all its foolish thoughts, all its filthy fancies, and all its mistaken notions, and to erase from your mind all nonexistent images – the Lord is standing and waiting to introduce His reason, His seals, and His words.

Based on St. Nikolai Velemirovich

A monk setting in motion the main chandelier in the Chapel of St. Demetrius during the Divine liturgy at Vatopaidi Monastery.