There is no beast in the world fiercer than a human being who does not care about people’s labors, but rather charges them with blasphemy because of those labors. This is something of a jungle ethic. I am not talking about the beast who made a kingdom for himself in a faraway forest, but rather ...
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Enough!
Most of those who deal with public affairs in our country today excel at one thing, namely, at offering you more and more poison every day. Every responsible person, having an iota of wisdom, if he thinks of developing himself in what he is doing, he will subject himself to criticism and evaluation. I do ...
Read moreConcern for Others
During the pandemic, it became customary for people, in their joys and sorrows, to leave their phone numbers on formal announcements that they set, to receive congratulations or condolences. This reception style, which distanced us from one another on the one hand, has relieved us, on the other hand, of transmitting the disease and its ...
Read moreThe Lord Was Not in the Earthquake
This is a title taken from the account of the prophet Elijah (1 Kings 19:11). After he slaughtered the prophets of Baal, Elijah was hiding in a cave to escape from Jezebel, king Ahab’s wife. The Lord spoke to him to go out and stand on the mountain. Then a wind passed by, and the ...
Read moreTo Maroun Bechara
I read with interest your article in which you told us about “the little girl” who had missed you in the old souk of Batroun, in the place where you used to display, at a nominal price, books for both the poor and the rich. A friend of mine read it on the Bazar Du ...
Read moreThe Secret of Love!
To be well-established in the fact that love is acceptance, the acceptance of those who love us or who love no one, this is the secret of love in its horizontal dimension. To love is to love others with the beauty that we see in them and the beauty that we do not see, with ...
Read moreA Prayer in the Midst of Destruction
O God, God of our salvation, help us with Your tenderness to have this wrath pass away from us. I believe that You are always present with us. I beseech You. Our homelands are already destroyed. For decades, death has been enslaving us as if it were the absolute master! I honestly tell You that, ...
Read moreTestifying to Mercy
Do not believe an arrogant person, if he talks to you about God and His gifts, that he believes in what he says. Only those who are in need of mercy are they who testify that the source of the life-giving goodness is God alone.
Read moreA Sun in Winter
Yesterday, some friends told me that, these days, they are attending to helping some needy brethren who do not leave their villages during winter, to face the cold. Only those who love, who understood very well that we are all one family, are the ones who fight the cold in others. I remember my mother ...
Read moreA Writer's Diary
It is a great book by the great writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who went to God one hundred and forty-two years ago. I do not mean only that the book is large in its number of pages (681 pages of large size), but first of all by the vigor of its author in all the ideas ...
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