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Mother Siluana’s answers to the questions posed in this volume, structured in four main chapters - Spiritual Unrest; Spiritual Warfare; Other Concerns; Questions and Quests - are ways we can enter into the Joy of our Savior.” - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbbess Sofronia, St. Silouan the Athonite Monastery, Iasi, Romania\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mother Siluana Vlad","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42184913780826,"sku":null,"price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/8464\/4186\/files\/offering-ourselves-vol2-cover.jpg?v=1709605180"},{"product_id":"offering-ourselves-we-enter-into-his-joy-volume-1-by-schemanun-siluana-vlad","title":"Offering Ourselves, We Enter into His Joy - Vol 1","description":"\u003ch3\u003eConversations with Young People\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Lord, what do I seek in this pain? 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Haven’t we been waiting for someone like her all along, for someone to embrace our wounds and tell us that indeed, God loves us no matter where we are?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn the first conference, “\u003cb\u003eThe Theology of Small Things\u003c\/b\u003e,” Mother Siluana tells us that our individual problems have common roots. We forgot who we are. \u003cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003eWe identify with our wounds, and not with the image of our Creator. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Our mind is ill and filled with confusion, wrong opinions, and beliefs”. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0d0d0d;\"\u003eOur attention is scattered. We are \u003c\/span\u003eseduced by psychological and spiritual trends that encourage positivity and emotional bliss, yet remain detached from the true spiritual life. God, once known as a Person who never leaves our side, is insidiously reshaped according to the precepts of society and our ever-changing desires. Thus, our soul becomes fragmented. We pretend to be who we are not. We run away from our own lives. We fall into depression and despair. Some even contemplate suicide, while others seek oblivion in pleasures of all sorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAnd yet, beneath this turmoil, the thirst for God remains. Mother Siluana knows this thirst. She shows us the way to rediscover our identity, meaning, and zest for life. She invites us to quench our thirst with the living water of her words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eShe reminds us that God does not abandon us, that He is always present and interested in the smallest things of our lives\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eHowever, she tells us that we need to choose to be healthy\u003cspan style=\"color: #0e101a;\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003eTo collect all our attention and redirect it towards Him in everything we do. \u003ci\u003e“Now, in what I am doing at this moment, I can meet God if I remember Him and show myself to Him, and I can feel the joy that He gave to me, and that is in me, regardless of what I can sense with my senses and what I can feel with my feelings.”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe conference titled “\u003cb\u003eWho Am I?\u003c\/b\u003e” becomes an invitation for the sophisticated philosopher, the learned psychologist, the cradle Orthodox, and the seeker as well. We are defined by God, created by His own hand in His Image. We are created, therefore always dependent on our Creator. \u003ci\u003e“God \u003cb\u003eis\u003c\/b\u003e; we \u003cb\u003ebecome\u003c\/b\u003e.”\u003c\/i\u003e We become by interacting with Him and others; we grow and heal only in relationships. Joy becomes available to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSo, how do we start to become? Again, it is our choice to desire change - to become by growing up into what God meant us to be.  To learn to \u003ci\u003e“die to the unrealistic expectation that the world should automatically satisfy our needs and desires.”\u003c\/i\u003e To stop being afraid of suffering. To name the lie and evil in us. To leave the defenses that separate us from God. To allow ourselves to die to the false image we create for ourselves. To dare to become\u003cspan style=\"color: #0e101a;\"\u003e what our hearts truly desire.\u003c\/span\u003e To remember that we each are cells of the Body of Christ. To grow up in relationships. To engage without demanding love. \u003cspan style=\"color: #0e101a;\"\u003eTo cling to God and stay in His Body. T\u003c\/span\u003ehis is what Mother Siluana so boldly tells us. There is no other way. \u003cspan style=\"color: #0e101a;\"\u003eBecause when we stop pretending, we start\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cb\u003ebecoming\u003c\/b\u003e...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHowever, many of us do not feel joy. We feel empty or half-alive; we are depressed. The last conference, “\u003cb\u003eThe Source of Depression in Modern Man\u003c\/b\u003e,” addresses this pervasive reality. Here, Mother Siluana speaks of her identity crisis, when she, a smart and well-educated young woman, was \u003ci\u003e“convinced that God does not exist, and if He exists, He does not deserve our love because He allows so much suffering in the world.”\u003c\/i\u003e At that time, she was hospitalized twice in a famous psychiatric hospital in Bucharest. Alongside the standard treatments of the time, her doctor prescribed something unexpected: that she stop trying to be like everyone else, to dare be who she truly was. This is the advice she never tires of offering us. We have heard this before, but here it takes on a deeper meaning: the healing of an illness that keeps us stuck in emptiness and half living. \u003ci\u003e“Depression is often a rebellion against a meaningless life”, “the cry of a soul that can no longer live without God.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMany fall into depression because they have not yet found God; others because of wounds they have not yet been able to heal, or because they believe they deserve everything.\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eIn truth, we are often depressed because we do not know how to approach life correctly\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003eWe deny that we are wounded. We lack the courage to look inside and take responsibility for the lies we are afraid to discover in us. Instead, we blame others. We attempt to free ourselves by projecting our troubles onto them. 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