826 (FALL/REPENTANCE/SORROW/JOY/ ‘RESET’) It is customary for our enemy the devil, after a fall (and in particular a fall into something which we decided not to do again), to beat us up with the hammer of sadness and disappointment.
He disrupts our fighting spirit and does not let us get up and continue our race with true repentance.

What do we do in such a case?

Let us recall the previous Paternal Advice (no. 825) and repeat jointly with the simple younger brother of Abba Poimen:

(after the fall)
“Yes, my brothers; let us all go together, wherever you want”…, and in this way we continue our struggle from wherever we were before the fall.

Just like a hurdles runner, who may fall down and immediately gets up and continues his race…

Or, in other words, we ‘reset’ ourselves not every month, not every week, not every day, but even every single moment!

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