All Things? Really?

There is a way of looking at life that moves me towards fullness and completeness rather than just the "minimum daily requirements."

I remember the look on his face when I told him that Orthodoxy is “maximalist, not minimalistic.” Then I reminded him of years of government promotion of the “minimum daily requirements” of this or that vitamin to be healthy.

He slowly began to understand what I meant when I added, “We don’t treat spiritual illness with an aspirin. We use the full dose of timeless wisdom.”

The light turned on in his head, and he got what I was trying to say.

The truth is most of what we believe isn’t necessarily “wrong” as much as it is TOO SMALL!

That’s one aspect of the Faith that appealed to me. I wanted and needed the fullness of the Faith to inform and change every aspect of my life through this Orthodox Way of Life.

Look at our lesson today in Matthew 11:27-30: