{"id":1769,"date":"2016-02-19T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2016-02-14T17:53:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:53:55","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"ihs5-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ihs5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ihs5-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;I became another, a new person. I turned everything I saw into prayer. I preferred it to myself. Why does the bird sing and glorify its maker? I wanted to do the same&#8230;I observed the grasses, the trees, the water, the rocks&#8230; I saw everything with the grace of God. I saw it but I didn&#8217;t speak. I often went to the forest. I was greatly enthused by walking amidst the stones and rushes, the thickets and the tall trees.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"282ti-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"282ti-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"282ti-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Porphyrios in &#8220;Wounded by Love&#8221;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"282ti-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elderPorphpyrios.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1564\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elderPorphpyrios-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"elderPorphpyrios\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elderPorphpyrios-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elderPorphpyrios.jpg 387w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I became another, a new person. I turned everything I saw into prayer. I preferred it to myself. Why does the bird sing and glorify its maker? I wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}