Archpriest Andrei Tkachev. Spiritual life. The first stage: churching. (№ 407936)

A sure sign of a properly passable life is the alternation of some sorrows and burdens with others, with continued hope. Difficulties threaten to become false and pernicious when despair follows. At this point, there is a threat that the labors will perish without giving fruit. Where there are labors, there will be joys and sorrows. And if there is no despair in grief, but there is hope, then this is a sign of a properly passed life. A grieving person does not fall into charm. He may become embittered, but it will not be lovely, but a kind of nervousness. But when everything is always good, then there are serious reasons for alarm. Here we must be afraid of spiritual charm..