{"id":5934,"date":"2018-12-24T12:48:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T17:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2018-12-24T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T15:49:27","slug":"elder-joseph-the-hesychast-on-starting-early-in-the-holy-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5934","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Starting Early in the Holy Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo if you don\u2019t struggle and labor now when you are young, you won\u2019t reap the benefit when you\u2019re old; you won\u2019t have anything in your \u2018retirement fund.\u2019 So, my child, you too should work hard now so that when the years have passed and you\u2019re old, you will find these things. Just as our forefathers used to say: \u2018Work when you\u2019re young to have something when you\u2019re old\u2019\u00a0 Gero-Arsenios and I wore ourselves out when we were young, and now God has come to reward us. Now that we are old and leaving this life, we are experiencing these things within us. I\u2019m telling you all this so that you will remember it. You\u2019re young and later this will be useful for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018My Elder Joseph\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5935\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/df8ffba8f817551382a11bdcf34ef7a4-orthodox-christianity-churches-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/df8ffba8f817551382a11bdcf34ef7a4-orthodox-christianity-churches-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/df8ffba8f817551382a11bdcf34ef7a4-orthodox-christianity-churches.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo if you don\u2019t struggle and labor now when you are young, you won\u2019t reap the benefit when you\u2019re old; you won\u2019t have anything in your \u2018retirement fund.\u2019 So, my [&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-5934","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\/5934","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=5934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5936,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5934\/revisions\/5936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}