The Art of Small Steps is a new collection by Father Alexander Dyachenko. The author shares with the reader joyful and tragic stories from the life of the parishioners of the church in the Vladimir region, where he has served for more than twenty years. So different in themes, plot, characters, these stories are united by one important feature that is characteristic of all the texts of this author - they are completely and unconditionally reliable. No artist's imagination can come up with those sometimes fantastic turns of human destinies, paradoxes and coincidences, which are so rich in the pastoral experience of Father Alexander, who subtly and accurately feels and "hearing" life, and in it the will of the Creator.