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In paradise, God called Adam, and he answered him.
In the conversation, the first word belongs to the Lord; by this word, the Lord gives every creature existence. Man is called to be one way or another; he has his own individual occupation. God’s calling is very different from what we call vocations in a secular sense.
The first difference concerns a certain moment in life. When a young man decides to choose a profession, his studies, his work is believed to have reached certain maturity that he exists, living in time. So first there is o existence and only then the choice of its path—the divine vocation proceeds oppositely. God will predestine from eternity a man gives him work to do existence, time, and all necessary conditions to carry out a divine plan. However, the ability to realize to take this vocation and accept it comes in time, later, in a moment that God also foresaw.
The second difference concerns natural suitability to the intended work. They are carried out in different countries psychological examinations to reveal what one’s job has gifts. He is supposed to be
happy when he chooses an activity that he will perform easily and with gusto. God’s calling that we know from the Holy Scriptures surprise with their opposite method. One hears God’s voice suddenly, against all expectations, the profession feels incapable of performing the work, to which they are called, stutter in surprise as, the prophet Jeremiah: “The word of the LORD came to me:” Before I created you in the life of my mother, I knew you before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you but to be perfect I have given you to the nations as a prophet. ‘ Then I said, Alas, O Lord GOD! I know not how he spoke. I am a boy, ‘but the Lord said to me, ‘Don’t say: I’m a boy. Everywhere I send you, you go, and all that I command you will say ‘”(Jeremiah 1: 4-7).

St. Ignatius has long tossed in uncertainty, carries out their profession in some form. He decided to go to Rome to seek help. When it’s approached the city, he got in the church in La Storta following confirmation from God – he seemed to see Christ with the cross on his shoulders and near him eternal A father who told him, “I want you to marry this one his servant. “So Jesus took him and said, “I want him to serve me.” And so the practical question is: Where and how do we hear God calling? Much of this question has been discussed in the specific case of the priesthood call or religious profession. Some authors have placed the main emphasis on the mediation of the church. He is therefore called God is one who rightful church leaders call to serve. Saint Thomas Aquinas, on the contrary, prefers the inner vocation in the heart inspired by the Holy Spirit, which manifests a persistent desire to follow a certain spiritual path. It presupposes a sincere and constant prayer to be human enlightened. Indeed, both voices of God, both inner and external, must be aligned. Church service is concentrated primarily to help distinguish which inner voice is truly divine and illusory. What is claimed about priestly and religious vocations applies to varying degrees for all of God’s calling.

Point out that signs are all around us
Our lives are full of different symbols and signs. Maybe none of us will say that the signs are something unknown to him. We meet them every day at every step. In the gospel, we heard a wonderful thought: “For as Jonah was a sign for And of the children of Nineveh, there shall be a Son of man for this generation ”(Lk 11:30).

The Lord Jesus came to this earth. He and his father sent him. He had a mission that was completed. For some, however, this is incomprehensible. God certainly loves all people. And when he saw a man’s fall, His heart did not close, but He gave people a second chance. Although people do, over time, became angry and provoked, he did not turn away from them. He gave and gave them a chance to turn around. But people stand against God again and again. They doubt and ask for signs. Even from Jesus, they asked for a sign. Then Jesus replies that they will receive only the sign of Jonah. Maybe, though, to say it was “only”? If we look closely at the figure of Jonah, we find that he was three days old in the belly of a big fish. You may be wondering, “But what does that have to do with Jesus?” Yes, Jesus indeed had no fish in his stomach. However, our Lord Jesus was in the grave for three days.

Let’s look at Jonah before and after he was inside a big fish and try to compare it to Jesus. Jonah invites God to go as his messenger to the great city of Nineveh. But what did Jonah do? He took the road and boarded the ship. However, it had one catch – he chose the opposite.
. Not because he didn’t know the direction, but because he didn’t want to obey God. This disobedience resulted in the fish’s abdomen. When he got out from the fish, his life changed, and he did God’s will. Looking now at Jesus, in his, in this case, one cannot speak of disobedience. But Jesus also was in the tomb for three days. Even His life is after three days in the grave, he changed. He came out of the grave in a glorified body. As we see in the lives of Jonah and Jesus, God cares for His faithful. As we are too, they sang in today’s Responsible Psalm: “God, you do not despise a broken heart and to the humble. ” Just as he took care of his Son, so he will take care of us. After all, he accepted us as well your children. It is a great honor for us to be his sons and daughters. Let us not be unbelievers, as some of Jesus’ contemporaries were. Belief based on signs is not difficult, but we are no longer talking about faith but belief. More precious is faith without signs. Even so, God still gives us many signs of His existence. Just look around us around and begin to perceive them.

One person said, “When I get up in the morning and look around, the only thing that comes to mind is that God must be a big dude to do all this. ” Let’s take his words. We don’t need signs to know how much God loves us. And let us try to pass on His love to our neighbors. Even without a sign, we know that God loves us. Let’s thank him for his love and never for that let’s not forget. Good Father, we thank you for all the gifts you give us. Be with us every day and at every time; we may do all our work with you.

At first, fasting was expected to have a healing effect on the body and soul. Fasting was primarily to protect a person from demonic influences. This view has its reason in the view of primitive nations on food intake. People are they fear that they will inject demonic forces into themselves with food.
In antiquity, certain foods are attributed to a special demonic influence. Thus, the Pythagorean believed that man in the flesh of a slaughtered animal received his demonic soul. Therefore, they prohibit the consumption of meat. Other directions see the action of demons only in certain animals. Thus, magicians believe that a demon causing epilepsy lies in a goat’s flesh. And they ban pork because it causes skin diseases and increased sexual potency. (3) However, demons can also act through plants. Thus, the Pythagorean forbid the consumption of beans because the dead souls reside in them and cause us restless, torturous dreams.
One of the reasons for fasting is, therefore, protection against demonic infection. Because one does not want to be sick, he abstains from food in which the demon resides diseases. Because we do not want to be controlled by demons, we avoid food infected with them. Another ancient reason for fasting is its empowering effect. This view is widespread, mainly in folk medicine but also in magical rituals of various religions. Healing is expected to heal mainly from inflammatory diseases, rheumatism, and catarrh; fasting also benefits people suffering from difficult dreams. How folk healing, as well as magical rituals, promise an increased effect from drugs that were preceded by fasting. Fasting, too, increases the magician’s power. The magic power of the famous magicians is often associated with their restrained lives in numerous sagas. However, Greek philosophical schools do not expect to fast the only protection from disease and demonic influences, but the purification of the spirit, inner contentment, freedom, and happiness. He sees it in the context of his life goal. The goal of cynics was, for example, self-sufficiency (egkrateia), the ability to give up everything that was not to sustain existence completely necessarily. The way to this goal was fasting for them. The Stoics’ ultimate goal was eudaemonia; luck consisted of inner freedom, a reasonable life, unadulterated by emotions and irrational motivations. Also, in this school (stoa), he is interested in dietary austerities in considerable space. Stoics see in its training for inner freedom, to live according to common sense, to “overcome the effect that stands in the way of rational behavior.”
The “Epicurean ideal of undisturbed individual peace of mind” also requires a simple way of life. Therefore, in ancient philosophical schools, it is always about the whole man to achieve his ultimate goal. Fasting is an important and proven tool on the way to this goal. It heals a man on body and soul; it leads him to inner freedom; it is the way to self-realization, to inner happiness. In the tradition of ancient philosophical schools, they emphasize even the Church Fathers in their writings the positive effects of fasting on body and soul. John Chrysostomus, in one of his sermons he speaks of the medicine of fasting invented by our “kind Lord as a loving Father.” (4) Because one by nature likes to indulge in pleasure and cannot keep the peace, one must always fast, again and again, free himself from the exaggerated worries about the things of this world and be able to do better devote to spiritual things.

Cassian thinks that many foods dull the heart, and “when the spirit is fat with the flesh, it provides a dangerous substance to ignite sin.” (5) The Old Monks apparently have a close connection between soul and body. If the body thickens, the soul also thickens and dulls. Lots of food diminishes the spiritual vigilance of man. Physical and mental health from a unity. We encounter this knowledge of today’s psychology very often in ancient monks and church fathers. Thus, Athanasius writes: “Handsome is what fasts! Heals diseases dry, overflowing body juices, banishes evil spirits, frightens perverted thoughts, gives the mind more clarity, purifies the heart, sanctifies the body. Then man it leads before God’s throne Fasting is a great force, leading to great success. ” Healing from disease here seems to be related to the drying of excess body juices. At first, the view seems like primitive folk medicine; it is compared to the findings of today’s medicine, he reveals his own meaning.

Prayer is a common thing in our lives. We have been teaching children to pray since we were little.
I don’t think any of you are sitting here are encountering this notion of prayer today the first time. In the gospel, we heard Jesus say quite harshly about prayer: “When you pray, don’t say much like pagans. They think they will be heard for their polyglotism. ” (Mathew 6,7).
The Lord Jesus is talking here especially about the Pharisees. The Pharisees were in the temples (synagogues) and devoted themselves to the study of the Fa. They were pretty educated people. Some of them were scribes. They took first place among the scholars. They have become popular because they considered them to be faithful interpreters of the Law presented by Moses. They could be said to have been conceited. Thinking because they didn’t want anything to do with the uneducated, the merchants, and those who didn’t want to study and meditate on the Law. They also paid attention to the Gentiles only if they did. They wanted to convert to “true faith.” They determined that the law included 613 regulations, 365 prohibitions, and 248 commands. In addition to working in synagogues, they also took care of education. In the countryside created schools.

They understood faith in God through the Law, which they kept to the point. This literal observance of the Law has been condemned several times. And not only to Jesus, but also the people themselves, to whom they bound unbearable burdens. They gave their whole teaching into a relationship with the Law and not with God. For every occasion, they tried to find the Law some command. The Pharisees realized that humans were their role models. And if they wanted to, they had to remain so that people would admire them. So they did, but mostly it was only outside. Jesus criticized them for this as well. The Pharisees offered alms, prayer, and fasting for the main manifestation of justice (justice). However, they only stayed outside. Often we can read in the Bible Jesus’ words “woe to you” addressed to the Pharisees. But it must also be said that Jesus himself had friends among the Pharisees. He was one of them, a certain Nicodemus who met secretly with Jesus and let himself be taught by him. And after Jesus’ death, he took care of his body. The Pharisees also include the apostle Paul. The Pharisees, even in prayer, were people of two faces.

The Lord Jesus showed us how to pray. This prayer was accepted by his disciples and then their followers. Thus, prayer was inherited from generation to generation. You are sure you remember the moments when you studied as children with your parents or grandparents pray. It is necessary to continue this tradition today. Let’s give children an example and pray at home together. One proverb says, “Words encourage, but examples attract. ” And so we can see this legacy of our ancestors and legacy to pass on our Lord Jesus. But it is not only our right but also our duty.
Therefore, let us strengthen ourselves with prayer every day and participate in the reception of the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the presence of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. Mr he will deliver the righteous from all distress. Even this is a guarantee for all of us that our prayers will be heard. Well, there is one condition. And it is to make our prayers they were not like the prayers of the Pharisees. They must not be superficial and shallow. God loves everyone, good people. And he will give the righteous what they need. Well, there is a difference between what we need and what we want. Prayer is a powerful weapon. But trust is also needed in God.

This is also the story of this: You have heard Connell, the liberator Irish? This is the true Christian and the great speaker in one person who is Protestant. He was directly fighting for the freedom of his homeland, which had groaned under it for many centuries heavy yoke.
Once in the London Parliament, there was a bill that Ireland was supposed to be more comfortable. The royal ministers had already triumphed, and the law was to be passed. She was needed sharp, deft, decisive speech. Everyone’s eyes turn to the Connell bench. His place is empty. An alarm will sound; they will start looking for it because the vote should have taken place. Finally, one of his friends finds him in the next room, where the rosary was praying devoutly. “Come on!” But he replies, “Let me end this rosary. He can benefit Ireland more than The fieriest speech. ” When he had finished his prayer, he came to the tribune, refuted the reasons for the ministers, and reached that the bill had been rejected.

Prayer is a potent weapon. None of us must forget this. That’s right, vice versa. Let us pray all the more and even better. Let’s be an example to each other, and let us help us move forward and draw closer to Christ. Lord Jesus, strengthen us so that we will be strong on the way to you, and we will always know you and speak everywhere.

How far am I from God? How do I live my faith? Am I a Christian only in church? At the end of time, Jesus will separate “He will set the sheep on the right and the goats on the left!

The Indian philosopher Rabindranath Tagore made tiny impressions of his travels in Europe. He claims to have met in Europe with Christianity on Sundays and holidays and with paganism on other days of the week. He did not notice the connection between religion and life in Europe. In many ways, the Church is perceived more or less as something decorative, an ornament for life. Therefore, he became convinced that faith becomes only a memory of the past, of the cult of ancestors; it is not actively accepted today, it is not approached in time, what is said about it is not drawn from it. He did not feel from encounters with Christians that faith is something that enriches. All because people say they are believers, but they don’t live by it. They also believe in God and serve mammon.

This philosopher’s experience is a challenge for us to really make a transformation in our spiritual life in Lent. Fasting is a time to analyze my Christian life and answer questions about such content: How far am I from God? How do I live my faith? Am I a Christian only in church? A sincere return, an inner transformation at the time of these fasting days of renewal, may take us to the Mount of Transfiguration to experience our inner transformation. We will experience prayer, the reception of the sacrament, and other values ​​offered by the Church when we find enough time for them. Faith’s inner experience cannot be gained in running, rushing, calculating your limited time, calculating … The mountain event reminds us that neither the natural nor the supernatural plane must be underestimated in the experience of transformation. The experience of transformation must presuppose two worlds: human and divine.

The world needs a different experience than the statement from the last decade of the twentieth century. Between 1990 and 2000, up to 2 million children, 27 million adults, and 35 million people lost their lives in wars. The study further states that in the 1990s, they registered 56 wars (armed conflicts with more than 1,000 victims) in 44 countries.

Who is on one side and who on the other? Who is the sheep, and who is the goat? Wars are not just about murder with weapons. Who kills whom spiritually? Where do we want to go to court? We decide for ourselves today. Lent is not my war in itself? Surely we also remember such facts that should cause pain. God in the human body, Jesus Christ, came for a different life, a different experience. It is time for us to contribute to other experiences in our lives through Lent. Amen.

Sleep is a great blessing for a person. It refreshes the body and spirit and is a necessary condition for health. Sleep is the retreat of the soul from conscious to subconscious activity. The consciousness of the dormant disappears because the connection with the esplanas disappears. Man falls asleep deeper and deeper. If he falls asleep superficially if he immerses himself in the first input subconscious, he still has a dull connection with esplan; sleep is disturbed by them, so a person sleeps with a refreshing sleep. The paths of the senses through which the world has entered man throughout the day are closed in sleep. During sleep, mental activity only changes, but it does not disappear because the soul cannot be put into a state of inactivity. There is an awakening of her inner strength, which is directed mainly to the experiences that have passed into the soul’s consciousness during daily life. The soul conjures up an ordinary dream, consisting of perceptions, impressions, ideas, images, thoughts, and experiences that have already passed into the soul’s consciousness. These impressions are often mixed with old experiences, long-buried in memory, and between the individual new perceptions and feelings. The psychological structure of dreams is very diverse, and many dreams are related to the content of consciousness in the waking state. . There is no space or time in a dream. , in a dream, we experience experiences at the moment, without the past and the future, experiences from childhood merge with experiences with yesterday. In a dream, everything is in the present, things from the past, and the desires for the future, which appear fulfilled in the form of various tempting turns. The mental apparatus is turned on a degree lower; it no longer creates abstract thoughts but only groups of images that flow in front of it like a running film. The soul has the feeling of a spectator watching, but at the same time, he feels them as a part of himself. For a psychologically educated physician, his patients’ dreams are irreplaceable material, the analysis of which penetrates deep mental connections even where direct questions to vigilant patients do not lead to results. We find that people with epilepsy mostly dream of wild fights, biting their dogs, crushing boulders, and the like. Hysterical people have fantastic and scary dreams. Alcoholics’ dreams have the character of disgust and fear; they see different characters. Dreams have a cramped effect on melancholy dreams; Dreams usually only take a second or a few seconds to awaken fully. The inner sight of the esplana captures the disappearing central events that took place in the consciousness of the soul, and the soul in the transition to consciousness realizes them in its self upon awakening.

However, there are other dreams that the soul acquires when the spatial release of its essence. The soul has the opportunity to release itself to a distant place with the help of fluid. He does it based on the inner instinct of freedom and freedom of spirit based on various impressions and ideas that we still want to realize. In this case, the soul releases to the appropriate place. I survived this phenomenon myself. I found myself in a dream in the city of Linz. I literally felt myself walking down the street and wanted to get on the tram. I was deciding which stop was closer to me. I felt it. That I’m in that city. I sensed him with my senses. It wasn’t a dream for me. I was in bed while doing so. With my body, but my soul relaxed. It’s a huge difference between an ordinary dream and this experience. And I testify that it was so. And I had more experiences like this in the past, but I considered them ordinary dreams, but they were not ordinary dreams.

 We are created out of love and for love. Our problems start when to let us move away from the source of love to go our own way. In the following, Jacques Lebreton describes the worst thing that can happen to a person: It all started at El Alamein in Egypt during the Battle of 1942. I was a driver in a military truck. One day my colleague, I don’t know why, fired a grenade and threw it put it in my hands. The moment I noticed that it was exploding and that I would not have time to make it, he threw it away. And it really exploded. I only heard a terrible noise that still sounds in my ears today. The night came quickly. They immediately took me by ambulance to the operating room. Fifteen days later, my nurse said, “Don’t worry, even one of your colleagues, who was also blind, after the regained vision. ” So I learned I was blind, he hoped; however, I will see again after the operation. Man is created to hope. In this state, I came to Damascus. At the time, I still couldn’t know that in those times, he watched over me the mysterious plan of God by which I would discover one day a much more important light than the one I lost. The hospital bed was my desert, desert before the meeting.

At this place of suffering, I asked Jesus Christ, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy above me. Have compassion for my human condition. I long for the immense, and I am limited and poor; I feel the need for the absolute, and all that surrounds me is limited and small. And you, Lord, who are you? ” After four months, I found out I didn’t even have hands. I hadn’t noticed it before because I was bandaged, and it seemed normal to me to nurse at all they help. And then such a terrible discovery. The blow was too hard for me to do endure. Two paths opened before me: to accept it peacefully or the arc that has me, he lured me to throw myself down. Then I rebelled against God and cried out, “Father, if you’re good, you can do it! But if your goodness is limited to the promise of a happy eternity, keep that promise to yourself because I no longer care. I was a victim of inhuman suffering, and I am not a superman. “

And God answered me. There was still a way for me to understand God’s plan, and the answer came in the form of a challenge: to learn to live as blind and hands-free. “Get up and go!” She said the response to human suffering. I accepted the challenge, and the results were amazing. I managed to win over myself to such an extent that I asked, “But where do I get from such a force? “-” I will give you the power of the Spirit to come upon you, “Jesus Christ replied. Thus, thanks to the Spirit, I accepted the plan from above: I am blind and without hands. That is reality. And I started crying with joy. I won my most important battle of life.

My friends asked me how I managed to maintain the strength I could
to give courage to others in the hospital. I returned to France with a great desire for life. A girl told me: “Just because you don’t have eyes or hands doesn’t mean you can be denied the right to happiness.” We got married and had five children. A man full of entrepreneurship was born in me. I joined the association of the blind, and I worked in it to help improve the condition of many of my blind people friends. I was human like everyone else and had a good economic position. My mind and my heart were like me in the service. But six years after that explosion grenade, I lost my initial motivation and soon began to look at my work if the idol. I no longer performed it for someone but something. In My whole activity, she was in a position of me. I didn’t even have time for prayer anymore because I had much more to do. I could do on my own the things that were for my necessary, and I thought I no longer needed God.

Deprived of the motivation of faith, I distanced myself from God. The emptiness soon arose in me, which I tried to fill by joining the Communist Party. I rebelled against God and the Church. The consequences were not long in coming: I wanted to divorce her wife, but she disagreed. One day, a friend of mine took me to the mystical soul of Marta Robin. Deep I was moved by her simplicity and came out of her room quite quietly. I started again with his prayer life: “Father, I do not understand anything. I had faith, but I lost it. Now I found her again. Show me in my life. ” In October 1960, a light shone on my night, and all the shackles fell from my hands. Could not I fall asleep all night, and my colleague heard me talking about God for two hours of mercy. Man can deny God, but God cannot deny man. I experienced God’s tenderness, compassion, and compassion infertility in my hospital bed, but I lacked the experience of his mercy.
I was not responsible for that terrible incident, but I also did. He could not feel innocent. No one is innocent. Being in danger for that I get lost, God allowed me to fall into activism, intending to give it to me later to know your mercy and your forgiveness. Today, reinforced by this experience, I dare say that the worst disease is not blindness or being without hands. The biggest misfortune in this world and the other is to distance oneself from God. God is mercy. God is tenderness.

Jacques Lebreton noticed quite well the most difficult problem for us humans: to move away from the Creator to walk the path of independence and rebellion, where we have been, the consequences will appear later. He who moves away from life cannot find others, only death. The most serious disease of man is sin, for everyone who sins is a slave (Johan 8.34), and the logical consequence of sin is death (cf. Rom 6:23), for who sows for his body, he will reap corruption from the body (Gal 6: 8). Sin is like armor that prevents us from experiencing God’s love. IN basically, we believe more in ourselves and our means than in God’s roads. It is a rebellion that seeks to make us independent of God that we are they have not tasted his redeeming love, for he separates us from others and divides us our soul in us. More than evil and forbidden deeds, it is a matter of preoccupation, an attitude of rebellion against God, moving away from his presence and ways. They have all sinned and lack God’s salvation (Romans 3:23) because Adam and Eve, who represent each of us, have strayed from God, experienced our nakedness, and been expelled from paradise symbolizes happiness to which God has invited us. It is a sin, the source of all the evil that afflicts humanity.

It was also on the agenda in the schools of the ancient Roman Empire teaching morality. It was made a particular way. The young people were presented with patterns that are to be followed: wise personalities, heroes who died for their homeland, great military leaders, and rulers. When, after the Peace of Constantine, the empire became official Christian, this program no longer met the time requirements. So they tried to replace these pagans examples of Christian patterns, both saints as of Old, both New Testament, martyrs and perfect Christians who have appeared in the Church’s history. They were also commemorated in the liturgy. It was created as well a calendar that presents the example of a particular saint one day or another.
At the same time, believers were convinced that the saints were like “Some reflection of the sun on the surface of the water.” to observe the light without being dazzled by its radiance. However, it remains true that the first role model it is necessary to contemplate and follow is Jesus himself, Christ. Jehovah’s first disciples had nothing else to do with the book, from which they would learn, rather than having before their eyes what they saw in their own Master. Therefore, the imitation of Christ occupies an important place in the history of spirituality. “A Christian is a man who imitates Christ as much as possible for man, words, deeds, and thoughts, “says St. John Klimek. And yet, here and there, some doubt arises or any objection to this ideal. He said it, for example, Martin Luther. He thought that the one who imitates the other eventually sees him in front of him, separated from each other. In this way, Christ seems like such a noble idea that one can not think that he would be able to imitate him. Therefore, it is, for example, that Christ should not be “before us” but “within us.” In other words, it is said that we should not live “according to Christ” but “in Christ” to identify with him. That’s how he put it already, St. Paul: “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me” (Gal 2:20).
The answer to this objection is easy. Sure, Christ cannot be imitated as a human being hero. We don’t have the strength to do that. However, Christians are aware that Christ lives among them through his Spirit, which they received at baptism, and in the power of that Spirit, we can imitate it to the best of our ability by that we will allow him to work in us. Preachers like to explain this feature by example. It is said that one young painter was a great admirer of the famous master Domenichino. He decided that it is imitated in one church, one of its own paintings. He worked successfully until he had imitated a person’s face. No matter how hard he tried, the result was bad, his face still coming out. All desperate, he hurled the brush at the ground. At that moment, the older man approached the gentleman, who had been watching him for a long time, took a brush, and completed the painting in a few strokes. And this time, it was the real imitation of a master. A young man with astonishment at him, his eyes widened, “Lord, come out the angel!” The older man smiled. “No, I’m not an angel; I’m Domenichino.” The saints have a similar experience. After so many failures and so many weaknesses, he feels that Christ lives in them and that he himself he paints his image in their hearts. Human painters teach their disciples the method by which they are to proceed, divine. The master also shares his “talent”. Then the path of following Christ becomes easy. Another example can illustrate this. Legend has it that St. Wenceslas wore the poor during the harsh winter’s wood and food while walking barefoot in the snow. Jehovah hated the cold and wailed the servant who walked with him. And so the saint advised him to lay his feet exactly in his footsteps, in the footsteps of the snow. And when it does so, he did, he felt a warm warmth.