Why Not Become Fire?

We Never Exhaust the Possibilities of the Contemplative Life

Abba Lot visited Abba Joseph and said to him, “Abba, to the best of my ability I do a little fasting, praying, and meditating. I maintain hēsychia and purge my thoughts to the best of my ability. What else should I be doing?” Standing up, the elder stretched out his hands to heaven, and his fingers became like ten lamps of fire; and he said to him, “If …