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Inside of me there are two wolves
image of good and image of evil.
They are fighting with each other all the time
The winner is the one I feed.
EPISODE 1 THE LIE
I can hardly imagine this garden, what it was like.
The one described in Genesis is only a view depicting an incredible beauty
in which a man was created.
Everything he dreamed of and beauty he desired
were within reach.
Try to imagine you've got everything you have ever wanted
and your every wish may be fulfilled.
Everything is achievable.
I like to think of this because I can't believe
how did it happen that, being part of such a reality,
we listened to this dumb voice of the devil who lied to us.
Since we had everything given by Lord God, how it was possible that
there was something still missing much enough to trust the devil.
This comes down to only one way he acts - he always lies.
He simply took advantage from our strong desire
to make good things
and tried to lie to us: 'you may want more'.
He attacked this infinite willingness and persuaded us
that God is hiding something away from us and still hadn't shared everything.
He used really beautiful side of us - the desire for more,
but he deceived us that God would never be able to give it to us.
This history of our moral decline when we abandoned Lord God in the Garden of Eden
confirms me in my belief that there is only one way the devil always acts.
He is simply a liar.
He is not able to offer us anything that God wouldn't give us
just because he doesn't have it.
The only thing he can do is to pretend that he possesses
something beyond God's reach
or something still hidden by Him.
For this reason, we need to learn that
all temptations, which have their origins in the devil, are always based on a lie.
He is a wolf - liar, wolf that all the time leads us astray.
During this retreat, beginning with today's episode,
we would like to confront different lies.
That is because he is deceiving us in thousands of ways.
We would like to focus on one particular lie,
one sort of his deceits in every episode.
This wolf, who's been prowling around the world since its beginning
trying to destroy our happiness,
is simply a liar.
Lie.
I'm infallible.
I'm exceptional so that you should obey me.
I'm the one who is always right. I'm in control of everything around.
And that's the problem.
The lie is poisoning a man in a really deceitful way,
like flattery.
At the beginning it seems to be nice and pleasant
but at the end it triggers an avalanche of such lies as a consequence.
This wave of lies makes a man suffocate. It makes me suffocate.
I say 'man this', 'man that' to escape responsibility.
In fact, I'm talking about myself.
The bad wolf has his own tactics and kind of marketing methods.
He is capable of doing everything and lie
in order to hunt something and torment it,
to defeat someone and feed his egoism
with the flesh of an innocent creature.
For some reason, it makes me think of my wife.
I happen to tell lies in everyday situations...
I posted on facebook that we're done with ten pieces (of music),
and we've already completed nine as a matter of fact. Why ten?
'When are you coming back home?', '5 pm' and I know it won't be sooner than 8 pm.
Why? What for?
Why can't we make ourselves clear and precise
and do always deform the actual state?
It's incredible but then I see that the bad wolf has got a father.
And it's Satan - the father of lie who is constantly encouraging us to lie.
'Lie! Lie! You'll win more!'
Whereas I have experienced many times
the truth bringing about much more happiness
even though it happened quite often that I was punished for telling the truth.
My mum always used to say, when I was a child,
'Tell me the truth! Where have you been? Tell me the truth, even if the worst!'
'I've been here and there.'
'I've told you umpteen times not to do that!' and slap.
So you take one on your cheek for the truth.
Actually one of our songs on the new Luxtorpeda's album says:
The truth, a lonely mother, it's hard to love her,
it has never been easy.
The truth, a lonely mother,
There is only one mother as the truth is.
And the lie aims to kill this truth.
The bad wolf wants to ruin a man.
This bad wolf inside me who is lying in order to reach for more.
In his constant lying and deceiving us at every turn
he always acts in two ways.
The first way of his lie is a try to persuade us that it's not that bad.
Namely, he tries to convince us that evil done by us is not the evil.
What we really need to do today, with the greatest possible honesty and courage,
is to face the truth reconsidering who we are.
If you are listening to this retreat as a bishop,
stop pretending you are infallible, have no weaknesses
and everything works out for you.
If you are listening to this retreat as a priest,
do not pretend you can handle every possible problem and help everybody
having no sins, being above everyone.
If you are a spouse, don't pretend your love is perfect
that it's splendid and you are able to cope with every problem.
If you're anybody else, surely you've got such defects you pretend you don't have.
Accept them.
Deny this lie the devil tries to sell you
saying you are not in such a bad way.
He wants to put you in the fetters.
Apart from this, there is also the second way the devil oparates.
He lies in a manner so that we start believing it's much worse than we think.
He is trying to press on us that we are not good people.
If you are listening to this retreat as a bishop,
don't allow him to say you are a stick-in-the-mud
unwanted in this world.
Not at all. Your mission is absolutely essential.
If you are a priest,
don't let him downgrade you to a minor and unimportant role.
The situation in which everyone ignore your voice with disrespect
and say that the only thing you possess is a sin.
If you are a spouse, don't be led by the lie that you're not able to love
and you're not able to learn how to love more.
If you are anybody else and you think of yourself badly,
degrade yourself and you're just too *** yourself,
don't believe this lie.
The devil's lie always takes two directions:
it either denies or exaggerate our sins.
What we need is the truth.
The truth is that we are sinners but at the same time
the truth is that God has nothing against it
so that He will make us good, exceptional and beautiful people.
During this retreat for the nest few weeks we would like to face the truth.
We would like to call a spade a spade
but at the same time see all these amazing things
God has put inside us.
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produced by STACJA 7.PL recorded and edited by Marcin Jończyk