A Mother’s Love
The following is an excerpt from St Paisios in Spiritual Counsels, Vol. 4 - Family Life :
It isn’t enough to merely love another; we must love the other more than ourselves. A mother loves her children more than she loves herself. She will stay hungry to feed her children, yet she feels greater pleasure than they do. The children are fed materially, but she is fed spiritually. They experience the taste of food, while she experiences spiritual rejoicing.
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