In communion with God in the Holy Spirit we know who we are (Beloved, Desired, Blessed…), and who God is, that is, we know the name of God (thousands of names – Almighty, Savior, Truth, Life, Light, Bridegroom, Friend, Joy, Beauty…). Therefore, everyone remains themselves – the image of God and acquires the likeness of God, becoming corresponding to those names that God has given me (Beloved, Desired…). Each one must give a name to God (= to know from God the name of God, that is, to know God directly in the Holy Spirit, and not from books (from Scripture) or from other people (these are their relationships with God, this is for them Jesus Christ is Lord, Joy, Light, Life…, and not for you?!). And this will be when God becomes everything to me, when I personally, from my experience-knowledge, call Him: Beloved, Desired, Loved, Joy!… When I become one with God, a god by grace, a participant-communicant of the Kingdom of God (Triune Loving Hypostatic Life-unity-perichoresis). Therefore, we find ourselves only in Another, only in communion with Another (in prayer)! Communion (perichoresis) with people is possible only in God, in the Body of Christ, in Christ, in the Holy Spirit! (The doors of my heart are closed, and the first one who wants to enter it, who truly Loves me, who needs me, is Christ, Who humbly stands and waits for my repentance when I hear His voice and open the doors of my heart with repentance and let God into my life, make Jesus Christ my Lord, become the temple of the Holy Spirit, the abode of the Holy Trinity, become the Catholic Church of Christ! We in this world, which lies in evil, are needed by no one – no one loves us and cannot love! We are needed only by God, we are Loved, Desired only by God and God’s, those who are filled with God, the Holy Spirit! God is Love, so only God and those who are in Christ filled with the Holy Spirit, God’s Love can Love!). The path to the Kingdom of God, to the Church of Christ – is the path of repentance: from lawlessness, consciencelessness, unprincipledness, irresponsibility to life by Law, by conscience, by God’s commandments, and further from the Law to life in Christ, in the Holy Spirit, to the resurrection of the hypostasis to personal life in Love in the Body of Christ!
Now let’s decode the above in simple words, to make it understandable for the “grandmothers” of our hamlet, simply, in plain terms. So, if it will be good for the one to whom I belong (that is, my neighbor, every Other), then it will also be good for me (my “I”)! If the one I belong to, on whom my Happiness depends, is Happy, then I will also be Happy in them! Let’s tell a parable about heaven and hell for illustration. Heaven and hell are like a dining room where people eat from one pot with three-meter-long spoons. In Heaven, everyone is full, clean, happy… and in hell, everyone is hungry, dirty, angry… Why such a difference if the pots and their contents (food) are the same in both heaven and hell, and the spoons are the same, three-meter-long?! Because in Heaven, everyone feeds their neighbor (the one opposite them, before them); and in hell, everyone tries to feed themselves… with a three-meter-long spoon… and in the dark (egoism is blind, anger is blind)! The feast – is all God’s Gifts, which those in Heaven use to serve their neighbor, care for their neighbor (feed, water, clothe, comfort, bless, make Happy); and in hell, everyone takes for themselves (appropriates the Gifts, tears them out of the mystery of love-communion), thinks about themselves, satisfies their selfish insatiable passions-desires, and asserting more and more in egoism, such a person moves to selfhood, eternal death of the hypostasis! So, if you want to be full – feed your neighbor, if you want to be happy – make your neighbor happy! And what to do if I feed my neighbor, feed them, and they do not even think about me, do not even have a thought to dip the spoon into the pot and give me even a half spoonful of thin soup, and I am hungry?! Continue to feed your neighbor, and choose the most delicious, the most nourishing from the pot, so that they quickly satisfy their hunger and be kind, polite, good-natured (because if you start calling them names, or worse, start hitting them with that spoon… you will stay hungry for a long time! Because only they (the one you hate) can feed you). Do good, and humbly wait, endure! You have no other way – you will not feed yourself, you will not make yourself happy! Love, do good and endure, wait, long suffer! Your happiness entirely depends on Others (“If you do not forgive your neighbors, God will not forgive you; if you do not show mercy to your neighbors, God will not show mercy to you; if you do not judge your neighbors, no one will judge you!”). And do not look for any symmetry (I give to you, and you give the same amount back to me), that is, a return, thanks! “Love does not seek its own, for itself!” (see 1 Corinthians 13). If you want to be happy – you must love, despite the lack of reciprocity (this we say in a fleshly way, for our “grandmothers”; because we know (see above: “Give thanks for everything…”) that we are Divinely Loved every moment, and we must show reciprocity! We must thank for the constant Gift of God, God’s Love-Love-Eros!). “Love your enemies: bless, pray, do good to those who curse, persecute, hate you!”. If you want to be Happy (become a Christian, be baptized in the Holy Spirit), you cannot but love them (not try with all your might to love your enemies) – Happy is the one who Loves (because they are already long Loved, Desired – even before the creation of the world!)! A person becomes themselves only when they Love, and Loves only when they are in the Holy Spirit, in union-prayer with God, in Christ!