{"id":33779,"date":"2016-01-22T11:44:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T09:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=33779"},"modified":"2016-12-01T14:20:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T12:20:01","slug":"%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-110-%d9%84%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d8%aa%d9%88%d9%82%d9%81-%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85%d9%8b%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-110-%d9%84%d8%a7-%d8%aa%d8%aa%d9%88%d9%82%d9%81-%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85%d9%8b%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85\/","title":{"rendered":"On life (110) \u2013 \u201dLove Incessantly\u201d \u2013 22\/1\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0You can never choose the way or the day you die. You can only choose the way you live. According to Gibran Khalil Gibran,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cYou were created to live\u2026\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">As people live, they seek happiness which secret is love. You cannot be happy if you seclude yourself from others. Rather, it is true love for others that fills you with joy. Even virtues cannot be considered virtues, if they are void of love, writes reposed Pope Shenouda III.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Love is pain\u2019s best remedy and troubles\u2019<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">best solution. It unlocks the gate of giving and sharing: for love is not synonymous to controlling others\u2019 lives. Rather, it helps them live freely and shape their own destinies. Love annuls evil and envy, replacing them with understanding. A sage says,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cIf you replace love with wealth, you will be despised.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We also read,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cAnd now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times;\">\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love is not a feeling that can be standardized. It is an ideology that you treat others through, believing they have the right to live and be happy. That you do not love God and people anymore, or speak evil of an ex-friend means you were never sincere: for love is a great value.<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Sometimes, you offer love, but find nothing in return. Even worse, you might be repaid with evil. Do not regret it. God knows all your deeds. He is fully aware of your motives and feelings, and will reward you according to all of them. Love incessantly. Do not face evil with evil, for this increases sin and expels goodness. Do not put out fire with fire, but with water. Love has its outcomes, like\u2026 we shall continue\u2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #800000;\">General Bishop<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #800000;\">Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0You can never choose the way or the day you die. You can only choose the way you live. According to Gibran Khalil Gibran,\u00a0\u201cYou were created to live\u2026\u201d\u00a0As people live, they seek happiness which secret is love. You cannot be happy if you seclude yourself from others. Rather, it is true love [&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":[7108,6804,6385,240,170,1007,3613,642],"class_list":["post-33779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-love-incessantly","tag-on-life","tag-youm7","tag---2","tag-170","tag-1007","tag-3613","tag-642"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33779"}],"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=33779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41072,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33779\/revisions\/41072"}],"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=33779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}