شارل الياس الشارتوني: سارة اليافي الرائعة وعيد الميلاد/مع فيديو تمنيات سارة الميلادية/Charles Elias Chartouni: Amazing Sara El-Yafi and the Christmas Narrative/With Sara’s Christmas Wishes Video
شارل الياس الشارتوني: سارة اليافي الرائعة وعيد الميلاد / مع فيديو تمنيات سارة الميلاد
Amazing Sara El-Yafi and the Christmas Narrative Charles Elias Chartouni/December 29/2021 Sara El-Yafi is an interesting and fascinating public actor who departs from conventional representations in our country, defies subsumptions and captures the essence of what a liberal society stands for. She is the epitome of what the Lebanese National experience has yielded in spite of all the miseries and pitfalls of the centennial, its liberal inspiration. She is a typical liberal public actor who invites others to discursive engagement, a Lebanese patriot who fully embraces the historical entitlements of a highly contested land, and a political figure who stands firm on issues while professing “principled moderation”.While listening to her last video, I discovered the spiritual side of her personality, personal quest and overall worldview which underpin her public career and account for her pathway.Philosophically, her itinerary is experiential whereby the sense of truth, justice, compassion and love connotes with basic attitudes conveyed by a narrative, namely the one of Christmas: “a rare human memory …, that invites everyone in with joy, and [where] everyone has a place to be seen, even the animals are given a positive role and regarded with esteem…. It is the [story] of insignificant people achieving big things through faith, a forlorn, modest pregnant lady with no place to stay who gives birth to a person who will grow up to embody love and modesty for all his life”. It is a story where “there is no money, no power, no competition, no ego, no harm, no control, no scorn, no spite and no victimization, just human modesty and love…,”. Christmas remains “ the most powerful story over the last 2000 years and nothing comes close to what Christmas is in terms of a story. It’s not the story of superheroes with unattainable powers, it is the story of the super modest humans who tapped the most attainable superpower, which is the power of faith or the power of God, which once again is to me “ego-less love”.That’s God. She concludes her Christmas greetings “ in spiritual remembrance of this ego-less love,…may love unwaveringly find its way through our hearts and become our state of mind today and always”. Merry Christmas Sara …
