{"id":30120,"date":"2015-07-11T13:18:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T11:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=30120"},"modified":"2017-04-06T13:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T11:25:56","slug":"%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-85-%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%9f-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88","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%a9-85-%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d8%a3%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%9f-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88\/","title":{"rendered":"On Life 85 \u2013 Why Me \u2013 July 11, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWhy me?\u201d This question echoed within and shook him violently. \u201cWhy should I go through all this tribulation?\u201d \u201cWhy is everything I do hindered?\u201d \u201cWhy is life easy for some people and impossible for others?\u201d Here, his attention was caught by a young man who was practicing weight-lifting. As he was trying to lift this huge weight, it fell and he failed. Yet, he kept trying! He became quite interested in the young man and the heavy weight, in an attempt to know the end of it.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Trial and error continued till the young man was eventually able to lift the weight. Though he sweated, he smiled triumphantly. Yet, the question, \u201cWhy me?\u201d reverberated. In a moment, he recalled the young man\u2019s picture, realizing that these are but life\u2019s experiences.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0It is said that we never realize the true value of the moments we live, except when they become memories. The value of life is not appreciated unless it is gone. We go through multitudinous situations: the easy, difficult, painful, and joyful. Some take us to the depth, while others leave us on the shore. Only time teaches us the value of what we are. Many a time do we go through painful times when we just wish time had gone; maybe we wish we had fled it. We go through many agonies. Likewise, we go through many ecstasies. However, we later realize that such situations give us strength, perseverance, and wisdom which illuminate our lives. The situations which God allows to happen, and which you have nothing to do with, are but tools that reshape your character, preparing you to carry out a mission. Someday, you will thank God for them.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0If man does not realize, at many instances, the importance of whatever God makes him go through in his life, he might as well fail to appreciate the people he meets during his lifetime. Whoever you meet during your lifetime teaches you something. A sage says, \u201cI never regret meeting anybody. Honest people made me happy; bad people gave me experience, while the worst gave me a lesson. As for the best, they never forsook me.\u201d Here, it is worthy to point out that one should not befriend the evil in order to learn from them, for we are speaking of those who you encounter without premeditation. So, be good to everybody, even if they do not appreciate it. Remember Pope Shenouda III\u2019s words, \u201cBe not sad if nobody appreciates your care, for humans do not realize blessings save after they had gone.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n

General Bishop<\/span><\/h2>\n

Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWhy me?\u201d This question echoed within and shook him violently. \u201cWhy should I go through all this tribulation?\u201d \u201cWhy is everything I do hindered?\u201d \u201cWhy is life easy for some people and impossible for others?\u201d Here, his attention was caught by a young man who was practicing weight-lifting. As he was trying to lift […]<\/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":[6804,8103,6385,170,1007,8104],"class_list":["post-30120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-on-life","tag-why-me","tag-youm7","tag-170","tag-1007","tag-8104"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120"}],"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=30120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45339,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30120\/revisions\/45339"}],"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=30120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}