{"id":10721,"date":"2022-01-01T08:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T13:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10721"},"modified":"2022-01-01T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T13:02:18","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10721","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026we need the light of Christ\u2019s Nativity in our world darkened with confusion, anxiety, and temptations. We might struggle to see this light in our suffering world, racked by a pandemic, and with societal changes coming at an alarming rate\u2026Be encouraged! It is into our world, \u201cgroaning in travail,\u201d that our Deliverer is born. God in His love for mankind did not leave the world in darkness but came as its Savior. Even today Christ has \u201cshone to the world the light of wisdom\u201d (Nativity Troparion). We can see this light by unreservedly following the gospel and trading the earthly for the heavenly.\u201d<br \/>\n(Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America, Nativity epistle)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10722\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20-mind-blowing-ice-sculptures-you-have-to-see-1-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20-mind-blowing-ice-sculptures-you-have-to-see-1-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20-mind-blowing-ice-sculptures-you-have-to-see-1-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20-mind-blowing-ice-sculptures-you-have-to-see-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026we need the light of Christ\u2019s Nativity in our world darkened with confusion, anxiety, and temptations. We might struggle to see this light in our suffering world, racked by a [&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-10721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10723,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10721\/revisions\/10723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}