El-Keraza Magazine
 
By: H.H. Pope Shenouda III April 8, 2005
 
And so, if you find a desperate person, don't despise his desperation …
And don't say about him that he has a weak and incompetent personality; you should rather encourage him and get him out of his despair. If you find a torn out person, don't despise his weakness but help him through it. The man who was healed at the Pool of Bethesda (Jn 5) had been thirty eight years in his sickness and didn't find anyone to put him into the pool, God didn't permit that he becomes desperate in spite of all these long years with no healing and no help. It was something which was really worth desperation yet God finally saved and healed him.