Imagine – the Mother of God appearing from the skies to show a young man like me his sins.” The simplicity and humility of Simeon made him aware that he did hear only a sweet voice, but he did not see the speaker – the Mother of God – in his dream. He said: “Now I see how sorry the Lord and His Mother are for people. the simple minded Simeon attributed it to his unworthiness and his sins. One day, Simeon woke up disgusted from dreaming that a snake was crawling down his throat, and he was troubled from hearing a sweet voice saying: “Just as you find it loathsome to swallow a snake in your dream, so I find your ways ugly to look upon.". While the words of the woman let Simeon found his faith and clung to the thought of God, and made him adopt an unusual frame of mind that is suitable for monastic life, the normal life made him lose his zeal after only three months. He had almost killed one young man, as he was showing off before the girls of the village. He loved drinking, eating, playing concertina and showing off before girls. He lived a normal life full of gaiety, temptations and sin.
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