1. How can I lift up my eyes onto You, my LORD, how can I regard Your GLORY?
2. You have Created me in Your own IMAGE and LIKENESS.
3. You call for me – “come and Partake of all that is Mine”.
4. Your GRACE is pouring forth into me to open up the “borders” of the Created Being, so that You may COME in.
5. I shudder at how You THE GREATEST can Come into me, the smallest . . .
6. How can the Created Being hold You, the CREATOR?
7. You know the MYSTERY of Coming into me, for You are GOD. I cannot even approach You.
8. You can hold me within You, I cannot even touch You . . .
9. You Come into me beyond my Created Nature, and I shudder as I cannot hold You.
10. This MYSTERY is my eternal AWE and Prostration.
11. It is the MYSTERY of Your IMAGE that is SEALED into me, for it is only Your own IMAGE that can hold You.
12. You have Created me bestowing upon me Your IMAGE, the only one allows me to stand to Your FACE.
13. O, THE GREATNESS of Your IMAGE, I am amazed at how my Created Image can hold You.
14. How can I, the Created one, be a “dwelling place” of Yours? . . .
15. O MYSTERY! YOU COME INTO me first, to make me Your Own IMAGE and LIKENESS, so that I myself can “RECEIVE” You.
16. I, the Created one, do not stand “within” You, yet You COME INTO me so that I can MEET you in my turn.
17. You have Created me out of Your LOVE, and this is the MYSTERY that can do everything.
18. Without LOVE You could not COME INTO me YOURSELF, and thus I myself could never MEET You.
19. Without LOVE I would “lose” myself into You, for LOVE is the one that makes me be one at Your side.
20. You have Created me to be “an Eternal”, like You.
21. No, You do not transform Yourself into Creation, but endow this Creation with Your Own Image and Likeness.
22. The Creation can never come into Your Image, for Your IMAGE comes into the Creation. And thus You bestow Your Eternity upon the Creation.
23. You the ETERNAL ONE can Create only something equally Eternal.
24. O my LORD and GOD, You have Created me bestowing upon me the LIKENESS of Your IMAGE, which thus makes You akin to me and me akin to You.
25. Through Your IMAGE which is sealed onto my Being, You have made me the TABLE of Your SUPPER, where You want me to partake of those that are Yours.
26. You come first with Your LOVE into me, and thus I also become Love.
27. O, GOD, You are my MYSTERY, in which I find my own Image of Creation.
28. O, I have fallen into the deception of sin and the DOOR of Your HOLY SUPPER has closed.
29. My LORD, forgive me, welcome me once more as You have welcomed “the prodigal son”.
30. O, my LORD, how blessed am I at the TABLE of Your SUPPER.
31. I bow and pray to You my LORD, and with the Arms of my Image of Beingness
I dare touch the fringes of Your GRACE-COAT.
32. Blessed am I, the Created one, in whom You have WILLED to make for Yourself a Dwelling Place of Creation.
(published in the volume "Avva Ghelasie, Cuvântătorul de Dumnezeu" ("Abba Ghelasie, the Theologian"), Platytera Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005, p. 13-15. Translation from Romanian: Alice Butnar)
Copyright: Platytera Publishing House.
The Romanian (Original) Version can be found here.
The German version can be found here.
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