{"id":6784,"date":"2019-06-21T09:01:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6784"},"modified":"2019-06-15T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T12:03:15","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-21-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6784","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9bd5c\" data-offset-key=\"95qga-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"95qga-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"95qga-0-0\">\u201cTo be thankful for the things that are hardest to be thankful for\u2014pain, suffering, death, illness, tiredness\u2014to be grateful for those is something that happens once you have learned how to be grateful for the things that are easier to be grateful for. So rather than saying to yourself \u2018I\u2019m now going to be grateful for all of my suffering,\u2019 start by being grateful for the lovely things! God gives us these things that are easy to be grateful for so that we learn how to do that. Then, when sufferings come, we already have some practice in these things, we have practice in being grateful as a response.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9bd5c\" data-offset-key=\"ck9au-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ck9au-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ck9au-0-0\">(Bishop Irenei of Western Europe, talk)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9bd5c\" data-offset-key=\"1h492-0-0\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6785\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/22-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/22-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/22-768x526.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/22.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo be thankful for the things that are hardest to be thankful for\u2014pain, suffering, death, illness, tiredness\u2014to be grateful for those is something that happens once you have learned how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784","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=6784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6786,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions\/6786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}