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Someone asked me, \u201cYou write about life. What do you think is in it?\u201d I answered, \u201cIt\u2019s a journey we make. With each step, we take up a new test which shows one of the human aspects God gave us.\u201d Having finished, I found another question in his eyes. So, I continued, \u201cThrough difficulties, your patience is tested; and through graces, your humbleness is revealed; through your words, your mind and wisdom are measured; and through continuing the journey, your hope and will are gauged. Man is measured by situations. This is how I think life is.<\/strong><\/span> General Bishop<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone asked me, \u201cYou write about life. What do you think is in it?\u201d I answered, \u201cIt\u2019s a journey we make. With each step, we take up a new test which shows one of the human aspects God gave us.\u201d Having finished, I found another question in his eyes. So, I continued, \u201cThrough difficulties, your […]<\/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-52269","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\/52269"}],"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=52269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52540,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52269\/revisions\/52540"}],"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=52269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFor a moment, he was quite; but he seemed sad. Then he resumed, as one who returned from a long journey full of sad memories, \u201cDon\u2019t you think that life has nothing but hardships for some people? Rarely do you find something joyful about it.\u201d I answered, \u201cIt is relative for different people. I believe it depends on our personality traits that enable us to face circumstances. Yet, I think all of us face challenges. Yet, we all have graces which, if we think of, will make us happy.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>
\nSilence prevailed, then I said, \u201cOne day, a boy went to play in a park. Having got tired, he sat on a bench, right beside a peer of his. The other boy smiled, as if inviting him to talk. Yet, the former didn\u2019t answer. Rather, he looked at the latter\u2019s luxurious clothes, and stared at his poor ones. The thing that attracted his attention most was the other\u2019s shoes. It was an expensive athletic pair. Then, having looked at his torn ones, he turned his face, only to be overwhelmed by wrath!<\/strong><\/span>
\nHis head was filled with questions: \u201cWhy don\u2019t I own such a pair? Why should I suffer, while others are happy? Why?\u201d Amidst these questions, he found no answer to the boy\u2019s smile which was still there, except to leave the bench and hide himself with his torn shoes and rags behind a tree. There, he started to look at his shoes, only for his eyes to be filled with tears, looking at the other boy occasionally. It was not long until he saw a woman approaching him with a wheel chair and helping him to it that he might go home!<\/strong><\/span>
\nOnly then, he realized the graces he had, and started running around the tree happily as if thanking God. Then, his tears fell in gratitude for what he had, or maybe in sadness for not making a sad heart happy, or maybe for both!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nHead of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n