A monk came to Abba Sisoes and said:
“What should I do, Abba, for I have fallen from grace?”
And he replied, Get up again.”
The monk came back shortly after and said:
“What shall I do now, for I have fallen again?”
And the old man said to him,
“Just get up again. Never cease getting back up again!”
- Sayings of the Elders
We fall – into sin, fear, sorrow, despair…. We can all name the many
places and ways in which we have fallen. Sometimes we fall through our
own doing, other times through the actions or words of another, and
still other times simply by the changes and chances of life. For most of
us the real question is not whether we will fall but whether we will
get up again. The spiritual journey is one of continually getting back
up again.From the Blog "Interrupting the Silence," found HERE
