{"id":28861,"date":"2014-08-15T13:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T10:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=28861"},"modified":"2017-06-07T15:07:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T13:07:40","slug":"%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-38-%d9%84%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%85-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a3%d8%ad%d8%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-38-%d9%84%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d8%ad%d9%83%d9%85-%d8%b9%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a3%d8%ad%d8%af\/","title":{"rendered":"On Life 39 \u2013 Judge Not \u2013 August 15, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">\u00a0 \u00a0A sage said, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cRemember that you are not the only sad person in the world. Not all people are happy as you think.\u201d<\/span> Do not judge things by their appearance. Learn to listen attentively and understand what others say or, even better, do not. Whoever you encounter could have more (or less) joy, pain, or experience than yours. Yet, definitely you do not know better than he does. So, be a friend, not judge, of whoever you encounter. Likewise, judge not any situation without profoundly looking into it.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">\u00a0 \u00a0How impressive it was to know about a specialist who was summoned by the hospital to perform an urgent surgery! Before the surgery, the patient\u2019s father met him and yelled, \u201cWhy are you late? We\u2019ve been waiting for you for ages! My only son is in danger and might die. Don\u2019t feel what a father is like?\u201d The surgeon tried to appease the father, saying, \u201cCalm down, please. I\u2019ll do my share. Trust God who takes care of us.\u201d Yet, the father was infuriated and said, \u201cI see you don\u2019t appreciate a father\u2019s feelings! Would have ever been so calm to the extent of senselessness if your son\u2019s life were in danger?\u201d The doctor glanced at him, then hurried to the operating theater. Two hours elapsed, after which the doctor came out to tell the man hurriedly, \u201cThank God. The operation was a success. Your son is alright.\u201d The doctor left, without giving the man a chance for further inquiries. The man got upset and told the nurse, \u201cThis surgeon is quite vain.\u201d She said, \u201cThough his son died in a car accident, he came quickly when he was informed of your son\u2019s condition! Having saved your son, he had to hurry to bury his own!\u201d The man kept quiet!<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Mark this: judging people and situations is pretty hard. So, be human. Remember that people want you to feel them and understand the pain they cannot express. During our lifetime, we encounter counselors whose advise we should heed without being shaken by their way of expression. It is said, \u201cShould anybody advise you harshly, do not interrupt him. Utilize his remarks: for his cruelty hides great love. Don\u2019t be like the man who broke his alarm clock because it awoke him.\u201d Try to heed the value of the words and situations you come by: for life is journey; if you find hard paths therein, do not stop, but go forward.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">General Bishop<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0A sage said, \u201cRemember that you are not the only sad person in the world. Not all people are happy as you think.\u201d Do not judge things by their appearance. Learn to listen attentively and understand what others say or, even better, do not. Whoever you encounter could have more (or less) joy, pain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[8715,6804,6385,170,1007],"class_list":["post-28861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-judge-not","tag-on-life","tag-youm7","tag-170","tag-1007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47681,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28861\/revisions\/47681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}