He told me: \u201ca lot of people have left us to go abroad. The idea of remaining in the country has become retardation or suicide. People grew tired. I read that 70% of our young people have ended their relationship with Lebanon! What country is like ours in which Man feels unwanted! I no longer understand those who are calling people to stay. In order to stay, people want a real country, a country we all belong to, and which is all ours\u201d. I listened to him carefully. I summed up my comment by saying: \u201cwhere would I be? This is something I do not decide apart from God\u201d. I did not tell him anything that he is not convinced of. The fact of the matter is that many of the strong people among us have grown weary. I say to my countrymen today as well: \u201cemptying Lebanon does not make it. Do not crucify yourselves over a reality that cannot be changed without us. Those who are leaving their country are seeking help from tomorrow. They are seeking a better tomorrow. We are able to achieve this right here, for ourselves and for others. Not only do I tell you: be brave, but also persevere! No courage changes reality without perseverance. This is the guarantee of a better tomorrow\u201d!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He told me: \u201ca lot of people have left us to go abroad. The idea of remaining in the country has become retardation or suicide. People grew tired. I read that 70% of our young people have ended their relationship with Lebanon! What country is like ours in which Man feels unwanted! I no longer ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2818,2819,2083,1829,2817],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-courage","tag-faith-and-homeland","tag-hope-in-adversity","tag-lebanon-crisis","tag-orthodox-perseverance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7888,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/7888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}