'Stop pretending to be white'

Hadeel's insightful and witty spin on things Egyptiana

Enjoy

Here is love vast as the ocean

Here is love vast as the ocean
Loving kindness as the flood
When the Prince of life, our ransom
Shed for us His precious blood
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten
Throughout Heaven's eternal days

On the Mount of Crucifixion
Fountains opened deep and wide
Through the floodgates of God's mercy
Flowed a vast and gracious tide
Grace and love, like mighty rivers
Poured incessant from above
And Heaven's peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love

Let us all His love accepting
Love Him ever all our days
Let us seek His Kingdom only
And our lives be to His praise
He alone shall be our glory
Nothing in the world we see
He has cleansed and sanctified us
He Himself has set us free

In His truth He does direct me
By His Spirit through His Word
And His grace my need is meeting
As I trust in Him, my Lord
All His fullness He is pouring
In His love and power in me
Without measureFull and boundless
As I yield myself to Thee


this lovely hymn was penned by William Rees in the 1800s...timeless though

Truth vs. Arab mentality

We egyptians /arabs don't want to know truth half the time. We are brought up all our lives to believe that what has been believed by generations past and what is socially acceptable is truth. Try to show anyone the light in correcting false views and you get the 'di 3a2la ta3baan' (not thinking straight) deal from them. The right thing to do is what has always been done and to do differently would mean that you are unegyptian, metamraka (americanised), unchristian, unmuslim etc. Being anyone of those is certainly not a good thing as it is within your own that you find acceptance and without your own you're pretty much on your own. Many a person has found himself without family and friends for embracing truths contrary to popular belief. I think this is what condemns our society to never improving because noone seeks truth. IF you don't know truth, then how will you know what is right and what is wrong? Let's bury our head in the sand and go into denial or let's believe rumours instead or intentionally make up things. Truth is not a priority but rather a hindrance that should be disposed of.

Wrestling with God (Genesis 32)

I have to wrestle with God. why? why can't life just be easy, why can't my heart love first and hate second?I pray that your spirit would be within me, that i would find forgiveness easy, that i would accept forgiveness for my own sins. I am weary fighting with the old nature. At one point I used to prevail and now the old nature prevails, it's too hard to wrestle, it's too hard to persevere till the end. But focus must always be kept on God. Everytime I look within, I despair. IF only I could be free from the shackles of sin which bind me down. IF only you would change my heart in an instant. Like Paul I say that the good that i want to do I don't and the bad that i don't want to do, I do....oh wretched man that I am. Look above to Jesus Christ, our saviour, our great I am, the one who conquered sin. He is sufficient in any and every temptation. I pray that I would live for you again like you once helped me to. Your love surrounds me day by day, I am here today and breathing and alive because you chose to have mercy on me, mercy i did not deserve. I turned my back on you and walked away glancing back briefly to see if you would call me back. But you said: "child, i have given you all you need to trust me, if you do not trust me then you are not worthy to know me." You are faithful even when we are faithless and everything you do is righteous and just. Help me to love you like I love myself. Why is my heart so stone cold towards you? Why do I struggle to love the God who gave his life for me, who became sin so that i might become righteousness. Why do I look at the cross and not respond as I should? Why do the small acts of kindness done toward me by man instill a deep gratitude yet the most loving act ever done leaves me standing still instead of running into your arms. I pray that you wouldn't wrestle with me for too long or too hard and give me your blessing of achanged heart.