They say that sometimes we talk to some people about pain; however they answer us talking about hope. Those people are whom we need the most. The world is full of conflicts, wars and catastrophes; however there is still a glimpse of hope in people’s hearts that helps them to keep on living.
Hope helps a person keep going on his spiritual adventure as he would find repentance from God for his sins. From a wide perspective, hope helps man to overcome all his obstacles and it helps him to work diligently till he achieves success. Some students had stumbled during their school years believing that they would never achieve success. However, they met a person who brought them a new hope to start over. The same goes for many persons who desperately fall in the trap of failure till someone came to offer them a new hope to rise again and achieve enormous success.
However, dreams may turn to mirage if there were no efforts exerted to achieve them. Hope is to realistically realize your abilities, study your next steps and think about all the alternatives, then to choose carefully and put all your efforts in your chosen path. Thus, hope turns into a reality.
One of the most amazing sayings about life is that “An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.” It is also said that “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle”.
It is hope, the light that prevails in one’s life, that casts out darkness and encourages man to work his way toward success.
Dear reader, be a source of hope for your people and help them overcome the darkness of despair; thus you would be carrying out the greatest mission on earth.
If it wasn’t for Anne Sullivan, we had never heard of Helen Keller. She presented real meaning of hope to her. There are also many other people, the time would fail me if I mentioned them all, who compelled the impossible and turned it to hope. Plato has said that life is a hope and whoever loses hope, loses life.
If your hope failed you, raise your head and cry to God and asks for His help. He always opens the door for those honest people who hold love in their hearts. Trust that “Hope never dies”. Let us take the opportunity of the current events and use them to build out our country with hope in our hearts and a broad vision at our minds. Let us take steady steps toward improvement in atmosphere of love for our country and our fellow citizens.
General Bishop
Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center
