79- Learn and Be Filled(1)

 

St-Takla.org Image: A fishing boat with birds and seagulls feeding around it (3) - Killiney, Dublin, Ireland - Photograph by Michael Ghaly for St-Takla.org, June 22, 2017 صورة في موقع الأنبا تكلا: مركب صيد، وحوله مجموعة من الطيور والنور يأكلون سمك حوله (3) - من صور كيلايني، دبلن، أيرلندا - تصوير مايكل غالي لموقع الأنبا تكلاهيمانوت، 22 يونيو 2017

 It was said that a small village lived on fishing. Even the birds lived on what the fishermen left behind. Suddenly, the fish became scarce and the fishermen left for another area to catch more fish. The birds could not find food because they totally depended on fish. Since they had never learned how to feed themselves, they eventually died.

 Sometimes, our situation is like that of those birds. We depend on what we can get from others, but we do not have daily encounters with the Bible. We depend on others’ experiences instead of our own with God. This is how we sentence ourselves to death like the birds that did not learn anything.

→ English translation of the story here at St-Takla.org: تعلم واشبع!

Grant us to follow the footsteps of the Saints,

Carried by Your Holy Spirit in us,

To be blessed with daily experiences with You God,

To realize Your works in the Church throughout the generations.

Footnotes and references for this page here at St-Takla.org:

A Straight Canal or A Winding River

Short Stories (Stories for the Youth) Books by Father Tadros Yacoub Malaty

Don’t Let Them Take Jonah from you