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This daily expression is often not mentioned literally in the Greek language, but in a conventional sense that refers to great harm. In other words, the person that was attacked can still be breathing and moving, but we all understand the great damage they have suffered. This damage can now be estimated as insignificant, but later it could prove to be terrible and deadly.

The person may temporarily breathe and move, but in essence their life has already been removed, and this will appear a little later. This truth of the phenomenal life that conceals the future death is what matters, because no one wants to die, not only today, but tomorrow and in the distant future. And as the ancient Greeks said, as death approaches, no one wants to die.

Whoever concocts death but overlaps his deadly act with a temporary life, is obviously not an ally of man but an enemy and a deadly one at that.

And each one is called not only to discern enemy from friend but also to discover the methods the enemy uses to steal, destroy and kill, as well as the methods their friend uses to save their life not only today but also tomorrow and in the future without an expiration date.

The discovery is a completely personal matter. There are discoveries that have consequences on our environment, family and society, but there are also personal discoveries.

And these little personal discoveries are of particular value, precisely because they concern our personal and individual lives. Everyone from a young age is invited to discover the world around us, to discover the world within us, to communicate with others our personal successes, to manage our little discoveries; discoveries about emotions, momentum, our intentions, our plans for the future and more. There is in ourselves a mechanism established since our birth, and this mechanism leads us and encourages us to move on to our discoveries; first the discovery of ourselves and later to discover the world, to interpret the behavior of the world, to discover ways of dealing with our everyday problems.

And this mechanism that we have since birth is powerful, it lasts as long as our earthly life, and as long as we cultivate it and keep it in good working condition, it yields fruit, first thirty, then sixty, then one hundred and finally there’s no more fruit.

And of course, this mechanism does not only work for the discovery of the world and solutions to everyday problems, but it also works in overcoming, searching, approaching, understanding and knowing our creator.

Although the title seems simple, we all know from everyday life that this is the most difficult thing in our lives.

That is either because we do not know the truth, or because we do not have the power to confess it, or because we want to deceive others or maybe because we like to lie, and not tell the truth. There is truth in small things, but there is also truth in the big things.

Every concealment of truth in small things has minor consequences, while every concealment of truth in great things has great consequences. And we all understand that if instead of concealing the truth I substitute truth with a lie, that is, I make the lie seem real, and then the issue goes on a whole new level. That happens because I do not silent, I do not silence the truth, but I make the lie seem as the truth in order to deceive. And that is obviously disastrous. Because replacing the truth with the lie will gradually bring down corruption to whatever this implies for our lives. And if it is small things, it can easily be dealt with.

But if it is in the big issues, then the absence of truth and the installation of lying in the form of truth is not only difficult to detect, but when it is discovered, it has already been rooted, and restoration requires difficult sacrifices and not all of us are willing to suffer.

The question posed by the title is not for insulting but for retrieving and searching for elements that confirm or not the query.

A lord is someone who has ownership of life and actions, ownership of project choices and remuneration without obligations to third parties. Although in our everyday life the words lord and lady have social characteristics and are a courtesy of nobleness, the original meaning of the New Testament times concerned the man who had not been deprived of his freedom, who was not a slave.

And Christ explained; If you do things that you do not want to, if you live a life that is not what you want, if you are plagued by external factors without strength for defense, if you succumb to the wills and aspirations of others without your will, then you obviously not a lord, but you are a slave , you have lost your own property, you have become unable to resist, and your life is not the life of the master but the life of the slave.

The only solution? Find out the point where you lost control and return to the lord who offers freedom as the first payment and not to the lord who offers easy solutions but also heavy work as a reward for the services to him.

Clocking in when we go to work has a practical effect. It objectively states our presence there and guarantees at least our participation in the work of our employer.

This practice in our everyday life proves that without physical presence and participation in the production of a work, payment is not certain. Besides that, a long absence from work, that can be shown in our personal card, disconnects us from our employer, removes us from the experience that others acquire, leads us to isolation and eventually even the desire to participate in production and in the reward is gradually reduced, becomes indifference at first and eventually becomes enmity and hatred for the employer and his work, becomes poverty and misery.

The wealth we could enjoy is far from us and we experience hell and dead ends. The parable of the talents proves and clearly indicates that the only way to enrich our personal reserves of faith and goods of life is not only our participation but also our personal action based on our existing wealth and on the talents that our creator has endowed us by nature.