Choose Whichever You Want Most
During Lent, I am reading the Desert Fathers. On occasion I will post sayings that strike me during my Lectio.
A brother who followed the hesychastic life in the monastery of the cave of Abba Sabba came to Abba Elias and said to him, “Abba, give me the way of life.”
The Old man said to the brother, “In the days of our predecessors they were greatly diligent about these three virtues: poverty, obedience, and fasting. But among monks today, avarice, self-confidence, and great greed have taken charge. Choose whichever you want most.”