14.5.25

President Trump thanked President Erdogan and the Crown Prince for their friendship, and told President Al-Sharaa that he has a tremendous opportunity to do something historic in his country. President Trump encouraged President Al-Sharaa to do a great job for the Syrian people, and urged him to:

1. Sign onto the Abraham Accords with Israel
2. Tell all foreign terrorists to leave Syria
3. Deport Palestinian terrorists
4. Help the United States to prevent the resurgence of ISIS
5. Assume responsibility for ISIS detention centers in Northeast Syria

The IDF repeats its “urgent” evacuation warning for three Houthi-controlled ports in Yemen, ahead of possible airstrikes. On Sunday, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee warned those at the Ras Isa, Hodeidah, and Salif ports on the western coast to evacuate until further notice. Since the initial warning, the Houthis have launched several ballistic missiles at Israel, but no IDF strikes were carried out.  Adraee repeats the warning a short while after a Houthi missile fired at Israel was intercepted. “Due to the Houthi terror regime’s use of ports for its terror activities, we urge all those present at these ports to evacuate and stay away from them for your own safety until further notice,” he says. The Israeli Air Force planes are already on their way to Yemen .

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The parable of the wasteful manager (Luke 16:1-13) is confusing. This is shown by the different headings of the Bible translations of this story.

The shocking part of the story is: ‘The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness’.

We have to break down the story from the end. Verse 12 says: ‘And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?’

From taking wasteful, he switches to giving wasteful.

The more liberated we are from ourselves, the more God can entrust to us.

God’s mercy should become visible in us. It should be seen what we experience by God.

What matters is not what we have, but what friends we have.

So what is the secret of a good manager?

He does not revolve around himself, but puts himself in the position of his neighbour. He reaches out again and again. He does not allow himself to be instrumentalised, but builds friendships.