This book is published for the first time in true "book" format, in glossy hardcover, with large, easy-to-read text, with original illustrations by Y. Timoshenko in every chapter.SummaryThis book by popular Russian Orthodox writer Archpriest Alexander Torik was written by the author in 2011. It can happen just like that: you"re a military officer, your wife leaves you, you serve in Chechnya, get wounded, and are discharged as an invalid. By a twist of fate you"re financially independent, with no need to sing for your supper. You can go fishing, rest up from the war, and live life at your ease. But inside you, in your memory, in your soul, the war isn"t over.War comes to you, "delivered direct to your doorstep" - real, cruel, uncompromising war. And along with it come love, happiness, and God. Or vice versa: God, love, and happiness!4th cover pageFather Alexander, how can you tell true love from "fake love"?True love is directed at the person who is the object of that love: a wife, a husband, children, parents, one"s homeland, etc. True love obliges the one who loves to think first and foremost about the happiness of his loved one, and to this end gives him the strength to sacrifice his time, energy, pleasure, and his very life, if necessary. The best description of Love is given in a certain Great Book: Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends ...