Why are you sad and moody while walking on the path of God? Those who do not have that joy, who forgot about God and who do not hope in God’s life-giving and eternal source they should grieve. We, again, who believe in the living God and hope in Him, should rejoice, because in the heavens we have Father who loves us more than all fathers and mothers, and who endlessly cares for making us worthy of Him.
Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and California
