Thursday, September 22, 2011

Would you sell to me 5 min?



When he started, Father Bishoy, the manager of Coptic youth channel, narrated a story about the welcoming monk in a coptic monastery. The Monks as anyone work to live, they work as carpenters, farmers, bakers...etc in the monastery, so usually monasteries, keep a polite monk as the gate keeper to welcome the visitors, and right above him works another monk who takes the visitors in tours in the few centuries old monastery. Back to Father Bishoy.... he narrated by saying," Once a poor man came to visit the monastery, standing by the gate, he asked to see the old monk who takes the visitors in tours, just for 5 minutes. Accordingly the gate keeper -monk- told the old monk about the poor man and that he wants to meet him for 5 minutes, in response the old monk told the gate keeper that he was busy now, so let the man wait for a while. Hours past.... and the young monk told the old monk few times about the same inquiry, yet he gets the same response every time, " Can't you see I am busy?!", and the poor man is still waiting at the gate. Soon Dr. Samer's family came to visit the monastery, so the old monk hastily welcomed them and took them for a 3 hours tour and had lunch with them, and they left, during that he was very happy. But the poor man was still waiting by the gate, begging just for 5 minutes, but met only the same reply "I am busy". At the end when the night arrived...the poor man disappeared, but left a message for the old monk at the gate, he said " You will receive all the earthly glory and honor you want, but my Kingdom you will not enter". Fr. Bishoy paused for a deadly second, looking at the stunt faces, he said "don't worry about that monk, as he cried and prayed for 13 years and God accepted him in heaven, but you should rather worry about yourselves!!". How can you go to the beach house in LA in the summer, if its owner wasn't someone you know and he recognizes you well enough to let you stay in his home. In Conclusion, God is welling to buy every second you would sell it to him, so that he would spend time with you.....how much would you sell?

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