{"id":7492,"date":"2019-11-20T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2019-11-20T06:30:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:30:54","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-november-20-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7492","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for November 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1c1r6\" data-offset-key=\"16k5d-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"16k5d-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"16k5d-0-0\">&#8220;The heavens declare the glory of God. The skies proclaim his handiwork. Trees and mountains can sing to God together, and even the rocks could start crying out. But I can\u2019t seem to open my mouth to pray. The phenomenon, I\u2019m assured, is not unique to me. Prayer is hard to do. I could take the time to compile a list of saints, divines, and other luminaries throughout history who struggled with prayer for seasons or throughout their lives, but it would only be a slight comfort in reassuring us that the struggle is common\u2014which we already know.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1c1r6\" data-offset-key=\"9ugr2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9ugr2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9ugr2-0-0\">(Stephen Brannon in &#8216;orthodoxwest.com&#8221;) <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9ugr2-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7493\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/327930.b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-1-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/327930.b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-1-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/327930.b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-1-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/327930.b-2019_11_08-19_20_40-UTC-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The heavens declare the glory of God. The skies proclaim his handiwork. Trees and mountains can sing to God together, and even the rocks could start crying out. But I [&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-7492","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\/7492","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=7492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7492\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}