{"id":8922,"date":"2011-11-17T01:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2011-09-16T06:45:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T10:45:21","slug":"we-should-not-flee-from-who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2011\/11\/17\/we-should-not-flee-from-who-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"We Should Not Flee from Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Days back, I went to the cinema to see an old film that spoke a lot to me. &#8220;The Lion King&#8221;. It presented the personage of Simba who saw his father\u2013the King\u2013killed defending him from a dangerous situation. Accused by an evil uncle, he felt guilty for the death of the father, and was advised to flee and never more to return.<\/p>\n<p>The young Lion fled to a place where he could grow and forget his problems \u2013 And there he had 2 little friends, and they said to him: &#8220;Hakuna matata&#8221;, which says [<em>Do not worry<\/em>]There he remained in hiding from his truth and forgot who he was. Until the moment that a wise man made him confront himself. In this moment the voice of his father spoke to him from inside. &#8220;<em>You forgot me, because you forget who you are.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simba was the prince and should assume his origin of King, he experienced a large interior conflict. But this situation brought him to react. Assuming who he really was, he returned and claimed the reign from the evil uncle.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot flee from our truths, we can try to isolate ourselves, to put our problems in suspension, but inside of us there will always be something to poke us, a voice of our conscience seeking our originality and authenticity We should return to our &#8220;Reign&#8221; and take the post that belongs to us. We are princes, we are sons of the King.<\/p>\n<p>Ademir Costa<\/p>\n<p>translated from<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/diariodeumconsagrado\/2011\/09\/16\/nao-podemos-fugir-daquilo-que-somos\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Portuguese<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days back, I went to the cinema to see an old film that spoke a lot to me. &#8220;The Lion King&#8221;. It presented the personage of Simba who saw his father\u2013the King\u2013killed defending him from a dangerous situation. Accused by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25555,25556],"tags":[75775,51490,16034],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}