{"id":3860,"date":"2017-11-04T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2017-11-03T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T13:03:03","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-november-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3860","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for November 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"11gr2\" data-offset-key=\"4ko5m-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4ko5m-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4ko5m-0-0\">\u201cJust as a mother is always aware of her child\u2019s presence, even when she is occupied with other people or activities, even more so is God ever aware of each and every one of us at every moment. The problem is that we try to hide from God, to only be in His presence when it is convenient for us, or, more precisely, when we want something from Him. We are like spoiled children, convinced that we know what to do, how to do it, what is good for us and that we can do everything on our own\u2026 we turn our back on the Creator and go off to do our will and satisfy our own pleasures, desires and often sinful passions.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"11gr2\" data-offset-key=\"9mq69-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9mq69-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9mq69-0-0\">(From the \u2018Veil\u2019 of the Protection of the Holy Virgin Orthodox Monastery)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9mq69-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3861\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lake-Baikal-3-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lake-Baikal-3-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lake-Baikal-3-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lake-Baikal-3-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lake-Baikal-3.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust as a mother is always aware of her child\u2019s presence, even when she is occupied with other people or activities, even more so is God ever aware of each [&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-3860","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\/3860","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=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}