God has created universe. For Him there is nothing impossible,
and He could distribute the gifts to all people equally. However, He has made
each person unique, having given everyone differently. One has received riches,
another poverty; one - force and a sound health, another -weak health or a mutilation;
one - great intellect, another - weak it; one - musical or art talent, another
- absence of ear for music or inability to discern colors; one has received
understanding of the Scriptures, another - skill in craft, etc. God’s grace
various and in each person can have, at times, freakish and strange combinations.
God Determines family and conditions, where to soul each person it is necessary
to be embodied, and then in what circumstances will be to appear the person
further.
However there are no people worthless. The most important gifts
it is gifts of love, such as, mercy and gratitude, it is given to each person.
Certainly, everyone has received it in a different measure, but this measure
not a constant, it can increase and decrease.
Such inequality among people exists to connect, to join their by
the strongest ties, - the ties of love which keep on mercy on the one hand and
gratitude on another. It exists, to connect all people as though in one person
as alive cells of one organism are connected. Each cell has the properties and
the applicability. They serve each other and due to it support a life of organism,
and a life of each other.
The person having surplus of any blessings, should not praise himself
before those which lacks for it. He should not be proud of the luck before the
loser, remembering, that God cans them to change places instantly. But that
it to avoid it is necessary to try to imagine itself on a place of other person.
It will lead to a birth in soul sympathy, pity, and wish to help to the unfortunate
person. Further it will be appeared in the material help or encouragement to
the needy one. The one who has received sympathy or help also should not show
discontent in response. On the contrary, he is obliged to show the gratitude
to the mercy person, keeping in mind that he could not receive even it.
When sympathy and pity will receive gratitude and benevolence in
the response, it will intensifying each other and will also trying to repeat
action. There is a spiritual communication between people which brings the peace
in their souls and the responsibility of each other. In this connection it is
necessary to recollect Saint Serafim Sarovsky's words. He spoke that the purpose
of life consists not in doing good, but with help of it in gaining of the peace
spirit – Holy Spirit. If people will be continue such relations the peace between
people will become stronger, they will begin more tolerant to each other. Pity
and sympathy through compassion, participation, clemency, benevolence, solicitude,
forgiveness, mercy, charity, kindness, grace can grow up to Love. On the other
hand gratitude and benevolence through acknowledgement, appreciation, goodwill,
thankfulness, loyalty, repentance, gratitude, respect, devotion, reverence,
veneration can grow up to Love too.
Mercy and gratitude is demonstration of perfection, the love is
the perfect bond of it. The love never ends, it is immortal. We accrue immortality
through accumulating love that is a life eternal. Whether, is it possible to
find more worthy purpose of life? And means towards this end are mercy and gratitude
without hypocrisy, in all sincerity.