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I shall ask a question that might have been be asked many times already: I work with children who suffer from hard diseases (cancer), and I know the question sounds the same as with Dostoyevsky: Why are these children sick? and how can the people who work with them cope with this problem?

This is a hard question...It’s hard to give an answer. Our mind cannot comprehend this; it doesn’t want to accept this. It’s also hard to agree that the rule of evil which we witness every day, is something that has been given the approval of God. I can only speak out my mind. We live in this world and want justice here and now. Yet God’s perspective is different. God sees eternity, He sees it as a victory that we’ll get, by suffering in this world. Therefore the benefit, the aim is high up and huge. We should have strong faith, and believe in God. Very often, we make a mistake in our understanding to what we believe He actually means. Faith is not self-suggestion, ‘I gave myself a ground thought and there’s no doubt about it...’ that’s not a faith. Faith is seeking a future, better spiritual Godly world. People don’t often understand completely truly, the innocence of children. Children are not innocent because there is no passion in them, rather because their sins are judgeless. There are sins and their consequences in children. Afterwards, there is inheritance as well, not to be transferred from a father to the son, rather the son holds up his father’s grave, there’s no doubt about that. Why is that, I don’t know. These are Gods judgments. Perhaps, for the son’s prayer for his father to come to pass. Perhaps. Yet in any case, the judgment will be different for the person whose parents were devout, and for those whose parents were not. This is the judgment of God, and we should trust God.


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Valaam Island, Sortavala, Kareliya, 186756, Russia
The Valaam Monastery of Transfiguration of the Savior
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