Another thing we will say about reading (eavesdropping, listening during a conversation). You may have noticed that in the conversation I speak not only dogmatically and pedagogically (officially), but also allow myself (in the context of pedagogy) to joke, sometimes with a hint of sarcasm, sometimes with irony – so be doubly attentive when you eavesdrop on what we are talking about with the father, recognize – where is the dogma, where is the pedagogy, and where are the jokes, “humoresques” (which are always serious, although they give the mind a little rest)?! A little seriously joking: imagine a scene: you are rushing to work, walking down the street, and suddenly words from a conversation between two ladies, past whom you are running, reach you. One is telling the other something joyfully with enthusiasm and you involuntarily heard, moved (unwillingly): “… for free! … a lot! … and even of high quality!..”. (Since we have such a “nature” that if something is given for free, for nothing, we line up, even without asking what they offer – the main thing is that it’s free; even if they issue “vouchers” to a concentration camp on Solovki or Siberia, or collect signatures (even pay! for allowing a fascist-satanist organization, which is based in the RF, to provide free “landscaping” services) for the purpose of destroying the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the east of Ukraine, to make this territory a “blooming paradise,” and if it is liked, then in all of Ukraine (for free!?), and for this, you do not have to pay (signatories, lucky ones even get paid) – all paid for by “benefactors” – Satanists from Moscow, and even the most grace-filled and canonical Satanists prayed (to the devil!), “blessed” so that “paradise” and “peace” would come as soon as possible, so that the “charitable” campaign would be successful!? And when we hear that “a lot!” – it means that no one is in a hurry anywhere…). These words interested you, but you do not know where it is happening, when, how to get there, what you need to have with you, whether it is safe, and finally, what they are ultimately giving away for free, and a little sobering up, coming to your senses from such news, you ask: for what purpose (a kilo of buckwheat and sugar, to come to power?! Or some more noble purpose?!). But about all this, you must communicate with the author of the news, “the gospel” or with participants in the conversation with the author, who learned the news directly from him and thoroughly found out all the details and nuances, or maybe even managed to be participants in this charitable campaign. (And whether you need this, whether to trust the author – you will find out only by communicating with him and seeing whether he is a fraudster or a sincere person, whether there are no contradictions in his speech, etc.). Therefore, first, you must understand what is being talked about (the subject of the conversation must interest you), and then you want to verify the information experientially, but this is possible only after communicating with the author or other eyewitnesses!..
By the way, the entire Gospel, the Good News that the Church proclaims, is exactly about this: about the Gift (by Grace) and not only “much,” but – EVERYTHING! And yet we do not go! We do not line up! But there is even no need to go anywhere – the “delivery” of the Kingdom of God to the heart is free and instantaneous, the main thing is to express the desire, the thirst to receive the Gift of Salvation (Resurrection) and to apply for it (repent) in thought, word, or on the heavenly website (in the heart – “the Kingdom of God is within you”), access to which everyone has, wherever they are (in any state, even in the most remote states of “hell,” which no longer exists, for it is destroyed – the covering of Divine Grace is everywhere! “Now everything is filled with light…”), one just needs to register (repent, embark on the path of repentance). Sometimes the “processor” “hangs,” the internet takes a long time to load – it’s necessary to clear the memory of passions and unnecessary stuff!.. and then there will be no problems with the application (“Remember me, Lord, when You come into Your Kingdom,” and the immediate response to the “application”: “Today you will be with Me in Paradise”). But almost no one (nearly everyone) is in a hurry to receive what is extremely necessary and what they need (have a need for) – Happiness, Paradise, the Kingdom of God, and EVERYTHING!? Why?! – Only because they do not understand what the dialogue of the Church with the proclaimed is about, whether they need this Kingdom of God or not, and even what this Kingdom of God is, which according to the Church I desperately need, – I do not know, about what She (the Church) is talking?! For example, you are walking down the street and dying of hunger and hear people talking in a foreign, incomprehensible to you language, about a house around the corner where everyone is given food for free and even generously given food to take on the road, and you grumble out of annoyance, saying: “all sorts of people have come here” and in malice continue to stagger to die of hunger!.. Their conversation did not interest you, because you did not understand what they were talking about (the language is foreign, the meaning of the words is unclear), and you even got irritated because they were happy and satiated (because they had a lot of food in their bag, which they were given to take on the road)… But if you had humbled yourself and dared to communicate with these foreigners (when I wrote these analogy-parables, I had in mind the early Christian apologetic work: “The Epistle to Diognetus,” which, among other things, talks about how for Christians foreign land is like native soil, and at home they are like in a foreign land…), they would have spoken your language…