Principles – «Your Life and Cause» – Saturday, 29th of October, 2016

   In the previous article, we tackled the issue of overcoming despair that may lead to losing our willpower and resisting our efforts exerted to “Build Egypt’s Future”. Therefore, we should take quick steps toward our goal; because a goal that is not sought is a dream that you will get over soon to discover that you didn’t make any progress whatsoever. However, you may be missing out many chances that you couldn’t seize while people around are taking quick steps toward success. So, you lose your life and it is so painful for someone to discover that his life went in vain!!

   Time is irreplaceable. We should learn from the past and apply its lessons in the present to achieve a brighter future for our country. If each one of us worked sincerely and carried out his duties honestly, we would change our present and future for better. Some may claim that no one does his work honestly nowadays. Dear reader, take the initiative and light the first candle on the path.

   Take the first step then all people will follow you. Many people need a gleam of light that guides them to find the right path. During your journey, you will find those who work honestly for their country, yet prefer to remain unknown.

Hardships but….

   You would face hardships as long you are working honestly as there is no toiling accompanied with comfort. When you reflect on the lives of great people, you will see nothing but hardships and difficulties they had faced yet victoriously overcome. If individuals can achieve success, then peoples can remarkably achieve progress of their countries.

   Faith we hold in our hearts and steps we take to achieve our dreams while overcoming sense of despair and resisting all the hardships together are all we need to achieve our goal.

Love and Honesty

   Our patriotic love for our country is so precious that no one appreciates but those who were deprived from living in their homelands. We are entrusted to keep our homeland “Egypt”. We will be asked about what we offered and how we offered it to her on doomsday. We will hold responsibility for not building it while we could.

   As it is said, “What is a homeland, it is not a question to answer, it is your life and cause altogether.” .Our homeland is nothing but its people who let love prevails over their hearts and let their country be their shelter in hard times and sacrifice their lives for it in its hard times. Our homeland is our life and cause.

General Bishop

Head of the Coptic Orthodox Cultural Center