{"id":8309,"date":"2020-05-18T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2020-05-09T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T13:38:42","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-18-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God\u2019s answer to man\u2019s suffering is not to wave it away. God\u2019s answer to man\u2019s suffering is to enter into it, to suffer Himself.\u00a0\u00a0Why did not He not just wave it away instead? It is because we needed to repent, and repentance only comes in the midst of suffering. We cannot come to ourselves like the Prodigal Son did if we do not even realize that we have left the Father\u2019s house and wasted everything in a far country.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Fr Andrew Damick, Ancient Faith Blog)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8310\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/334951.b-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/334951.b-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/334951.b-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/334951.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God\u2019s answer to man\u2019s suffering is not to wave it away. God\u2019s answer to man\u2019s suffering is to enter into it, to suffer Himself.\u00a0\u00a0Why did not He not just wave [&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-8309","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\/8309","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=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}