Have a Blessed Day
Pray for my weakness
Fr. Antonious Abba Moses
THE PRACTICAL PERSON
By H.H Pope Shenouda III
There are people who live in a fantasy, floating in hopes created by imagination, building castles in the air and living in day dreams. They never achieve anything because they are not
practical. On the contrary, there are people who are practical, living in reality and acting according to facts...He who lives in imaginary expectations is not practical.
Likewise:
The one who cries over the past, without working for the present, is not practical. Crying would not help him. He who collapses when faced with a problem, without thinking of its solution, is not practical. Collapsing is not going to save him...
He who acts without thinking of the outcome or the reaction to what he is doing, is not practical. He who deals with peoples according to his own mentality, without taking into consideration their own mentality and way of thinking, is not practical. The one who believes those who praise him, and makes friends with whoever smiles at him, thinking that as far as he is convinced of something, it must be true (and the others must be convinced of it)... is not practical. He who thinks that he has to win and be obeyed, just because he is Mr. so and so... is not practical. The practical person lives in reality with all its surroundings, obstacles and problems, without ignoring anything... The practical person deals with people as they are, not as they ought to be. He does not expect fanciful idealism in those with whom he deals, but he realizes they are human, like everybody else, with all the weaknesses and defects of the human nature. The practical person does not tackle his problems by weeping and lamentation, clamor and complaint. He faces his problems with composed thought and wisdom as well as practical solutions. He prays that God may bless his work and grant him
success. The practical person does not live on the word (IF)... He does not spend his life in the past, but he learns a lesson from it and works for the present and the future, with all his might...
Today’s Synaxarium: 25 Misra1728
v Departure of St.Bessarion, the Great
v Departure of St.Macarius III, the 114th Pope of Alexandria
Today we will read chapter 10 from the book of Job at 10:00 PM, May God bless.
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