“Ultimately, physical illnesses or the death of a loved one are opportunities to reflect upon the brevity of earthly life and ponder the reality that we are sojourners in a foreign land with our real homeland being in heaven with Christ and His saints…God allowing grief and suffering in order to awaken the heart to another reality that is far more precious than our earthly life.”
Hieromonk Alexis Trader, 21st Century Monk) [Suffering; Trials; Sanctification]

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