{"id":5797,"date":"2018-11-30T12:33:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2018-11-16T17:34:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:34:45","slug":"elder-amphilochios-on-facing-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5797","title":{"rendered":"Elder Amphilochios+ on Facing Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhoever plants a tree, plants hope, peace, and love and has the blessings of God\u2026I am like the old tree in whose shade the meek sheep of Christ gather during the hot days of summer, and in whose branches the small birds gather. All ask that the old pine tree might live so that they have their joy. However, slowly, slowly its roots rot and the heavy winter will come, when a strong wind will knock\u00a0him down and he will become wood for the fire. Now, however, the pine tree makes glad the sheep and birds that gather in the desert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Quoted in \u2018Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5798\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/250061.b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/250061.b-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/250061.b-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/250061.b-640x480.jpg 640w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/250061.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhoever plants a tree, plants hope, peace, and love and has the blessings of God\u2026I am like the old tree in whose shade the meek sheep of Christ gather during [&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-5797","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\/5797","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=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}