I use to be into some serious reading of the Russian writer Aleksandra I. Solzhenitsyn and Leo Tolstoy. Both wrote about the unfair prisons systems, Horrible Justice, and the working class peasants. In the unusual book "Resurrection," you can't help but pause to reflect deeply. I'm not gonna go there ...

The read is packed with classic scripture verses. I really loved Anna Karinina (sp?) more than the authors classic "etc., "War and Peace."

I fell in love with Anna? Anna, a 'fiction' character, embodied universal human trait characteristics? She was a well-positioned society member with prominence and  special privilege. Her class of peers were immune from laws that could easily wind ...  a good labor commoner, You/Me into one of those nasty cages. Have You ever seen those tin commodes?

You who slave and get 'bone-weary-tired' may have worked for honest wages that were robbed. If possible ... Stay clear away from a a jailhouse. They are funky nasty places.

In other words, a locked prison cage with no cell-phone access to legal fair trials by an impartial jury representation may be the legal unfairness.(I was denied a jury trial. I am tired of bringing my personal story up in a public forum)/. Sonny?

How much longer for the Kim Doan and family rip-off ... by Wayneboro, Pa's commonwealth's state predators, a CEO banker, a solicitor, and the lawyer seller of the Laundromat/apartments ... and the D.A. from Franklin County, PA. You know? Ref:`the white collar crime investigation robbery? When will the investigation be completed? Seriously. Patience is golden?

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Foci. okay. 

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Anna K. was alone, misunderstood, impugned, and She jumped on train tracks ... on impulse ... in front of a locomotive train. Her inner Spirit Light flared the brightest at the instant her Spirit departed. A sad reality that still happens.

The death Leo T. describes was the beeswax candle analogy.  The flame shines brightest just before the flame departs. A candle that is extinguished does do that.

Leo Tolstoy's  inspiration did come from the daily news of a high-society suicide. The Press mocked Anna. She was betrayed by a well-to-do-creep. The end was very sad. But, I am only going to add a few scriptures from another of Leo Tolstoy's read:`Leo Tolstoy book:`

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What Men Live by.

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The read of the short story is worth the time. P.S. It should not have to be mentioned that Leo was a critic of the government and the church. Leo Tolstoy was no self-appointed fundamentalist quack/fraud. That's for sure. He was no blink-a-eye politician. He never showed his pals partiality.

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Truth.

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The Scriptures in the beginning of the book:`

What 'Women/Men Live By. They are classic.

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- We know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brethren, and One who loves does no longer abide in death principle.- from the 1 Epistle to St. John. iii 14. 

-  Whoever has accumulated worldly goods, and beholds his sister/brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from her, how does the love of Nature / God (Good) abide in them? My little children, let us not love in in word, neither with tongue; but in deed and truth. - iii 17-18.

- Love is of God; and every one who loves is 'quickened'  by a Healthy and Holy inner Spirit, and God knows them. That person knows Good/God. For God's Nature is love. - iv 7-8. 

- No human has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, Good abides in us (God). - 1v. 12.

-  God is love; and if one who abides in love, S/he abides in God (Nature). - This scripture expression is found in - 1 St. John, iv. 16.  

- If one says:`I love a God (a good notion), and hates his sister/brother, he is a lier; for one who loves one who he/she has not seen, how can that person love God whom one has not been  seen? - iv. 20.

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The story is about Simon the shoemaker. Simon had neither house or land of his own. Surely, he had no heath insurance. He was a peasant with a wife and his children lived in a small hut-apartment dwelling. He earned a living by honest work. Work was cheap, but bread was dear, and what he made he spent on food.

The man and his partner had only one sheepskin winter coat between them both. Even that coat was worn to tatters. Rags. He wanted to buy a new sheepskin with the small pittance he managed to save. He could never buy a coat on credit. The money lender bankers of the day didn't trust him. He may need a GMC bailout? (NSA snoop-peek FISA?)

Merchants said:`Bring your cash-dough to mend your boot soles. Most of us who were not born with a pitchfork stuck in out behinds (huh?) know how downhearted we can get when debt-collection agents from India and contracted-out New York Law Firms call every other day? He grew corn for bread. and often Simon needed other grains. He was weary of spending money on sole shoe repairs and bread alone!

The story is a good read with universal maxims to instruct and guide in wisdom counsels. Thirsty Simon drank the saved little money on vodka and felt horrible shame one day in town. He left his mead jug home? But, why ruin the story and tell the punch line?

Read about Matryona. Learn from the good mystique and mysterious Family Visitor. Wonder about genuine Hospitality. Hospitality. Be bewildered with a human tear seen dripping down the facial cheek that is aglow in the candlelight reflecting shine.  The tear flows from weary and sad human eyes?

And, ponder about the exchange of immaterial inner insights and a meaning of:`Gift. Gracious. Learn. Listen to the Guest  offering counsel amd eavesdrop as these good common folk talk about who the robbers really are?

It won't hurt.

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This:`

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The care of the Earth is our most ancient  and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. - Wendell Berry.

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Satisfying  and honest work? People will need new slippers and boots for the burial grave? The walking Corpses walk on this Earth today! You hear them gibber jabber? In the end there is mention of wings on the special Guest as he left the hut.

A poor destitute family?

A family was very blessed. 

The Guest ministered truth.