{"id":6560,"date":"2019-05-03T12:02:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2019-05-01T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T14:03:46","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-accepting-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6560","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Accepting Injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen we are wronged and we accept this injustice, then in fact we gain. For example, am I wrongfully accused of having committed a crime and imprisoned unjustly? That\u2019s fine. My conscience is clear since I have not committed that crime, and on top of that, I have a heavenly reward. Is there a greater benevolence? I don\u2019t complain to God; instead, I glorify God, \u201cHow can I thank you, my Lord, that I didn\u2019t commit that crime? If I had, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to bear the pangs of remorse.\u201d That\u2019s when jail can become Paradise. Has someone struck me unjustly? \u201cGlory be to you, O Lord! Perhaps I may be able to pay off a sin; I, too, had once struck someone.\u201d Have I been insulted unjustly? \u201cGlory be to Thee, O Lord! I accept it out of love for You; for You, too, were struck and slandered for me.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>~ \u2018Spiritual Struggle\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6561\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1461-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1461-300x218.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1461-768x558.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1461.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen we are wronged and we accept this injustice, then in fact we gain. For example, am I wrongfully accused of having committed a crime and imprisoned unjustly? That\u2019s fine. [&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-6560","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\/6560","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=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6562,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions\/6562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}