Can you handle it?

The toughest war

I have to disarm

I have fought this war. For many years.

It was terrible. But now I am disarmed.

I fear nothing,

because “love chases out fear”

I am disarmed from the will to win,

And justifying myself at the expense of others

I am no longer on guard,

jealously holding on to my wealth.

I welcome and share. I am not especially attached to my ideas or projects.

If others have better things to propose,

I accept them willingly…

Whatever is good, true, real, wherever it is,

It is always better for me.

So I am no longer afraid.

When you have nothing

You are not afraid any more

“Who can separate us from the love of Christ?”…

If we disarm, I we divest ourselves of everything,

If we open ourselves to the God-man

Who renews all things,

Then he will wipe out our wicked past

And restore to us a new era where everything is possible.”

Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I

Morcelliana, Brescia 1995, pp. 209-211