Orthodox Parables and Stories: Simeon the Simple

Among the refugees from Asia Minor, who had arrived in Greece at the end of the terrible 1922, was an orphaned child named Symeon. Every morning, little Symeon, before arriving at the port in search of work, entered the Holy Temple of St. Spyridon, knelt in the image of Christ, and begged Him to help him, in order to save his living bread. So he said to him, kneeling:
"Good morning, my Christ! I am Symeon. Help me to earn my bread today."

The night he finished any of his occasional work, he would re-enter the Church, kneel again in the image of Christ and say:
"Good evening, my Christ! I am Symeon. Thank you for helping me earn my bread today! Good night!"
This habit was never broken.
As the years passed, Symeon reached old age, alone without a family. At some point he fell ill and ended up in the hospital.
"Grandpa, don't you have your own people? I do not see them coming to see you," the nurse asked him.
And the answer of the lonely Symeon: "No, I am not alone. Jesus Christ is coming, morning and night!".
"And what does the Lord say to you, grandfather?"
"Good morning Symeon! I am the Christ! Patience, patience…"
The nurse, who came from Patras, informed her elder, the virtuous late Archimandrite, about Fr. Christodoulos Fasos about the incident. He went up to Athens, and visited the patient.
Symeon, when asked by the elder about the visit of the Lord, answers him as follows: “Yes, elder! Christ visits me morning and evening! "
"Symeon, is it your imagination?" the elder asks again.
"No my elder, I'm not imagining! It is Christ! Yes, He came today! "
"Did he really come today?" the elder asked.
"Yes, elder! Early in the morning!".
"And what did He tell Symeon?"
"Good morning Symeon! I am the Christ! Have a little more patience! In three days, in the morning I will come to take you near Me !!! ", so the Lord told me.
And on the third day, early in the morning, Symeon began to shout with joy: "Yes, Christ has come to take me!". And straight away, the good and simple Symeon fell asleep in the Lord!