We Are Our Language!

It is not true that our alienation from this expanse occurs only because of our political conditions and the like (economic and security…). Very often, we alienate ourselves in our own countries, in rightful and unrightful forms. I am not talking today about this fatal neutrality in the face of the madness of our homelands, but rather about many of our children who are forgoing our language for other languages. I would not be changing the seriousness of what I am saying if I told you about a young girl whom I love, who commented on my preaching style by saying that I speak like the geography teacher in her school (meaning that I speak in classical Arabic)! There are children who asked me if I could preach to them in a foreign language, French or English. Yes, this is in Lebanon! Do I have to remind you of our little children who do not understand a word of our language? I have, of those, two young grandchildren. I may have said, here, before, that “our language is us”. The wounds of emigration are enough for us. Do not let our children migrate in our own land.