When I write about Lebanon, I have come to expect you to turn a blind eye to my lines. For Lebanon to become a true homeland for us, this, for most of us, is a dream preserved for a tomorrow to come. I have not given up on my optimism. In spite of my admitting repeatedly that I do not like dreams, I am using the term today only to denote that we are a people who have forgotten that the homeland calls for work! Why, whether we have stayed in Lebanon or have left it, we seem as if we are asking for a ready-made country? The greatest achievement that history will record for us is that we are a people who can never get enough of slumber! Is it in our hands, unbeknown to us, the solution of our country\u2019s changeover from a country of rivalry and greed\u2026 to a homeland for life? Then, I ask God to give us to sleep through a whole week! I am inclined to think that, if we slept for a week, nothing in our country would remain the same! Everything will be renewed! Am I still insisting on dreaming?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I write about Lebanon, I have come to expect you to turn a blind eye to my lines. For Lebanon to become a true homeland for us, this, for most of us, is a dream preserved for a tomorrow to come. I have not given up on my optimism. In spite of my admitting ...<\/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":[1885,2741,357,1293,2740],"class_list":["post-7646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-homeland","tag-hope-in-faith","tag-lebanon","tag-orthodox-christian-life","tag-social-renewal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646","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=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7927,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}