{"id":53729,"date":"2017-12-30T12:37:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=53729"},"modified":"2018-01-22T15:58:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T13:58:44","slug":"%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%88%d8%a9-231-%d8%a5%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%8f%d9%85-30122017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%88%d8%a9-231-%d8%a5%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%8a%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%8f%d9%85-30122017\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Egypt 231 \u2013 A Man Dreams \u2013 December 30, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0 \u00a0Dear: Today, the curtains come down to your departure, which brings on a new journey. With a new year\u2019s months, days and hours, each one of us wishes them to be filled with hopes and dreams that were sought after throughout life.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Who among us hopes for pain or sorrow for himself or for his beloved ones?! Who doesn\u2019t hope for happiness and joy?!<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Who stops in his way seeking for distresses?! Who doesn\u2019t seek for peace?!<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0We all live in this world with a new hope and warmth of love and goodness in every new day.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0In our hearts, we cherish a dream of the life pulses and the meanings of the exalted humanity imprinted in us throughout the journey of our lives, and we wish to achieve such dream.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0As such, all those whose lives are filled with love and goodness are dreaming for humanity as much as they dream for themselves.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Many have wished for you to come to an end rapidly! Due to the excessive<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0cruelness of yours which they have perceived, you have brought them much pain and distresses.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0However, I wonder: was it your fault or ours? Was that you which brought us distresses, or it is us who imprinted the distresses\u2019 features on your days?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Shall I blame you or us?!<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Well, I will not even blame anyone, yet I will attempt to make the days we shared together be experiences that teach us how to live in a new year;<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0We shall take lessons from all incidents we have passed through; whether they were filled with distress or comfort.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Let me talk with you, o old departing friend, about this good side which distress shows us: it is through distresses that man realizes his limitedness and weakness, then he finds nothing better than leaving his entire life issues in God\u2019s hands in order to manage it perfectly.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Yet, wait my friend! My words don\u2019t encourage slackness, dependence or<\/span><\/h2>\n

ceasing to work, nor to adopt the viewer’s stance of life, nor to neglect<\/span><\/h2>\n

events, but rather they mean that we shall live with the fullness of love,<\/span><\/h2>\n

work, goodness and hope, seeking to cheer ourselves as well as every man<\/span><\/h2>\n

when we attain success, with our trust wholly laid in God.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Another thing I can\u2019t skip in my conversation with you: distress, in its essence, is a kind of filtration for man\u2019s feelings, thoughts and intentions<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Distress separates between those who cling to virtue, having faith in it and in its importance in the journey of their lives on earth, and those who paint its features and images in their lives without knowing it well in order to gain others\u2019 glorification; it is such a great difference between the lives of these and those!<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Whoever learns to successfully cross the bridges of distress and pain gets his life and abilities strengthened with every crisis coming to an end, while those who live in the virtue\u2019s shadow without delving into its essence\u00a0 stumbles over the tests of life, or perhaps he lost the features of the road and humanity. While he who overcame distress, has learnt the most important humanity values; compassion, affection, tolerance, the value of being there whenever others need you, and the value of encouraging grieving souls to pass their trials; this is simply a message in life.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0I remember a short scene from a video I had watched a couple of days ago, which perhaps illustrates the positive impact that each of us can leave in others\u2019 lives:<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Someone was walking down a road when a paper fell from him without him noticing, he was watched by a cleaning man who gazed at the paper annoyingly, bending down to pick up the paper, a girl rushed to take it, wrote something on it and presented it to the man. He quickly looked at what she wrote, smiled and folded the paper and held it! Then he met a gloomy man carrying a number of wrapped boxes and returning to his home, he put the paper between two boxes, thus the man found it, read it and put it into his pocket smilingly. The paper moved from the pocket of the man to his wife, and then to an angry car driver, until it reached a young boy who found a smiling face drawn, and written below: “Smile!”<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The girl’s message to the man was to overcome his annoyance through focusing on the aspects of happiness and hope in order to be able to surmount his negative feelings.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0And thus, her message passed to others, and she was able to give them a hand with a simple positive idea. Yes, this is life.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0We have great influential power on the life of whom we deal with, and through few good feelings and love, we can attract others to life and success, while through few negative feelings we will destroy others\u2019 power and life. However, we must be careful: construction or demolition will not only affect others but is directed firstly at ourselves.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0My departing present friend: Perhaps we have been exposed to some pitfalls throughout your days, through which we have learnt patience, forbearance and insistence upon achieving our dreams. No one is born with patience or determination, but some people decide not to surrender to the obstacles all through the path, which benefit his steps and days with strength and ability to overcome and to gain victory, and other people have learnt to change their mind and style and to renew their depths positively in order to achieve what they aspire to.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0My year friend, which is departing after a few hours, whether we consider your moments to be harsh or compassionate to us, we eventually learn and decide: what side do we want to join? We are those who choose: Either to be humans, or to become semi humans!<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Your days as well the coming years\u2019 days will go on, they will be either added to our years or counted against us, we shall learn from their negative aspects before the positive ones, and how love is getting actually firm in us, not just in words, we wish our days would provide good for every human being, which is a sign for God\u2019s love.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0We must realize and step towards truth and justice, thus we would know the way to peace.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0As for you, our new friend approaching us with all its accompanying events, I hope you\u2019d be a milestone in our steps:<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Towards achieving security for each soul which lost its sense of security amidst the turmoil of the world,<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Towards the happiness of each soul to be raised above the suffering of life,<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0And towards the success for each person whose steps have stumbled throughout the way, our days are still a gift from God – His name is blessed- granted to attain our hopes and dreams.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Each of us shall start to make peace, yes: peace then peace then peace;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 this is the true message for which we shall live, and work.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Truly it is said: “Blessed are the peacemakers,<\/span><\/span>for they shall be called sons of God\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Signature<\/span><\/h2>\n

A man dreaming of a world prevailed by love and peace<\/span><\/h2>\n

And … About “Beautiful Egypt” talk has no end …!<\/span><\/h2>\n

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

The President of The Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center <\/span><\/h2>\n

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