Show Cardiac Logos - About Godly Marriage SHOW 45 - In marriage we must be more wicked than demons QUESTIONS You once said that the spiritual man does no damage. Whatever he handles, he handles with care and sanctity. Is it possible in marriage not to do human damage? Elder Isaiah of Lavra and the rule about the breaking of a glass by the submissive. Unfortunately I feel that many material things nowadays we take for granted and we do not stand with a eucharistic attitude towards them. Let it be that while we have everything we are already miserable. Is this also a matter of spiritual immaturity? Shall I call it spiritual ingratitude? Are the difficulties that come after a waste always material or spiritual? If as an old man we realize, even belatedly, that some specific difficulties that came to our marriage were finally to blame for the thoughtless waste we once did and without realizing it or foreseeing the danger, does the situation correct itself? We hear from the fathers who speak of the feeling he has when man is visited by the Divine Grace which is the knowledge of beings. What is this and how does it relate to marriage and to the discernment that the couple must have in managing well any life issues? He and now, Despot, who in the beginning created man, and set him as the king of creation. He made us Kings of Creation and not slaves. Why does he remind us of this in the wedding wish? This depends on what you achieve, whether people appreciate you or not, whether you have money or not, whether others scare you? How did a holy man understand that in marriage one can become King of Creation? Is the King of Creation the one who has love? Isn't that all out of this world? A slave but a leader? How this lack of knowledge or understanding that we were created to be good stewards, rulers of creation, affects our relationship in marriage, the relationship of the couple and the relationship with our children and the children with each other. We say I can't communicate with our wife anymore because she's been influenced by her friends or her mother, or I can't communicate with my children because they can't understand me. How is it possible that I who was created to be the sovereign leader of all these situations should not only resign but not see that it is my own fault? It got out of control and we withered the relationship with our spouse, or with our children and it has become a curse. If someone listens to what you tell us, it is easy to understand why some things are happening now. My question here is do we manage to correct some situations or is the game lost where it arrived and we start the pills at best or at worst are we planning how to crash out of a window? I remember what you said to the Holy Synod that we must be more wicked than demons. Can you comment on this for us during the wedding? Is there a limit to fooling around in marriage? How will we properly learn the value of our wife and children so that we don't have wrong criteria and starting points and in the end painful results? In the end, how will we acquire the right attitude and perception as an elder in our marriage, in our family?