I previously said that the first trust one should have and abide by deed down must be in God, and that goodness is eventually repaid even if darkness draw its curtains, goodness must shine and cause darkness to fade out. Did not you hear that the darkest hours of night are the ones which precede the birth of the sun of a new day? He said sadly, “I confess that I do not have such positive view to life. The events that go on around me make me believe that goodness had left on an endless journey since long”
At that moment I felt great pain sneaking out to my heart. It is so harsh that one loses his faith in goodness. I tried to arrange my words hoping that they may help alleviate these feelings that many experience now. It was not the first time in which I hear such wails sneaking behind the words. Then I said, Goodness, my friend, does not perish or end and it has been standing strong before evil for the thousands years of humanity. But as someone wrote, “Evil is not strong as its first impression says, but it is rather so desperately trying to convince us that it is!”
Goodness in the first place is connected with God, the Beneficent and it is what will remain forever. He hastened to say, “When? When will this happen?” I answered him with a smile, One man realizes that goodness is what will remain and as Voltaire, the philosopher and writer, said, “The best worship man can offer God is when he knows that good deeds are not a duty but the path to his personal happiness, then he would go one doing good and will not stop”. I like the words of the Irish Political Thinker, Edmund pork, “The only thing that help evil to prevail is that goodness stands still doing nothing” This means man should casts out all the negativity he carries in his heart as Helen Killer, the miraculous writer, has once said, “Science had found the cure to all evils but it did not find a cure to the evilest things: indifference” In return, trust that God controls all your life issues and He chooses the right time for them. this is a fact many has realized and experienced, Gandhi, the leader who spent his whole life calling for goodness and peace ,says, “Divine care has an exact timing for everything we can’t lead the results but all we can do is striving and toiling” He clarifies that the ability of not supporting evil matters more than supporting goodness.
I tried to go for a sailing journey to see some people who were known by their goodness.
Another important matter that made me wonder, Why eyes can’t the good deeds people do to one another? Why did people lose their faith in humanity and that there are still some people who still are humane. We need to restore our trust in the existence of compassion inside us and others and…. to be continued…
General Bishop
Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural center
