“Everything will happen suddenly.
It may even happen tonight.
Maybe it has begun already?
Don’t you see that your crops have failed and your animals have died?
The rivers and springs have dried up.
Today you are deprived of one thing, tomorrow another.
God is giving it to us a little at a time, and we stupid people don’t understand.
I say this to you and I counsel you,
even if the sky were to fall down,
even if the earth would rise up,
even if the whole world were destroyed, as it is due to do so, today, tomorrow,
don’t be concerned with what God is going to do.
Let them burn your body, let them fry it,
let them take your possessions – don’t concern yourself.
Give them away – they are not yours.
You need your soul and Christ.
Even if the whole world were to fall apart,
no one can take these two things away from you against your will.
Guard these two, and don’t loose them.”
St. Kosmos Aitolos