If you don’t see Christ with the eyes of your soul when you pray, you haven’t learned to pray. If only you knew what it is to see Christ with your eyes…

As soon as you see Him, you’re filled with indescribable joy. Yet you’re overcome with an overwhelming feeling of awe, so that your legs fold involuntarily, you fall on your face before Him and you stay there, in ecstasy, sobbing unceasingly.

What can you say there, in the presence of God? You simply wonder, you’re shattered and you weep constantly.

I’m telling you, it wasn’t one day or two, it was three months I couldn’t stop my tears. That sweetest of yearnings just burns you up. Try as you will, you can’t help yourself…

After three months, the tears grew less, but the memory never faded…

» Elder Charalambos of Dionysiou

source: pemptousia.com