{"id":48578,"date":"2017-07-21T14:13:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T12:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=48578"},"modified":"2017-08-06T13:39:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:39:30","slug":"%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-180-%d8%af%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%ab%d9%85-2172017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%b9%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%8a%d8%a7%d8%a9-180-%d8%af%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9-%d8%ab%d9%85-2172017\/","title":{"rendered":"On Life 180 \u2013 \u00abTears, then \u2026\u00bb \u2013 July 21, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Holding his pen, he started scribbling letters which made words that thundered in his head. Though he was not yet twenty-two, he was getting ready to plunge into life: for within a few days, he will take up a job in a company and embark on bigger responsibilities.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0This step made him worry: for he knew little about life\u2019s mysteries. He did not have much experience, despite his ability to learn and recall information, thus, attaining excellence. This was fine: for it opened work vistas before him. Yet, what about the future? He stopped for a while, only for his eyes to settle on the phrase, \u201cLife is a tear followed by a smile.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Tackling life, we discover its familiar and non-familiar aspects. Throughout, we find it limited by a tear shed for pain and frustration, and a smile emanating from good, love, success, and joy. Between these two, we learn how to transcend tears and share smiles.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Many people fear going through pain and tears and try to avoid them, heedless that these are but intervals made by God for their growth and development. After all, fruits do not come, unless seeds die and are buried. Indeed, life\u2019s darkest moments are followed by light. So, fear not pain, and replace by hope.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Likewise, painful times are the best stages of work. In a letter which Gibran Khalil Gibran wrote to a terribly wronged person, we read, \u201cProvidence put you in a place where people lack in knowledge, integrity, and freedom, which the best thing it does to good souls that have been created to serve, give, and educate.\u201d Indeed, there are people who God allows to face such times that their abilities to give and serve might extend to whoever they know. Tears generate within them energy for good and sympathy for the weary.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Moreover, painful times could be for man\u2019s acquiring new lessons or defeating something negative within him.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">To be continued \u2026<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">General Bishop<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: #000000;\">Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Holding his pen, he started scribbling letters which made words that thundered in his head. Though he was not yet twenty-two, he was getting ready to plunge into life: for within a few days, he will take up a job in a company and embark on bigger responsibilities. \u00a0 \u00a0This step made him worry: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":10623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48578"}],"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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48868,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48578\/revisions\/48868"}],"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=48578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}