orthodoxgladness:

Do good while your hands are still warm. – Rev. Alexy Gelosevsky

Our time is short. The older we get the faster it flees from us. We traded time for action in our youth. Now we want to cling to it.

But it is leaving us.

And our hands will soon be cold.

What will we have to show God? What will we have to offer to Him in response to His Love? His mercy? His grace?

All I have will be burned up by His consuming fire. I have worthless straw. Or nothing at all.