{"id":9940,"date":"2021-06-15T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9940"},"modified":"2021-06-11T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:58:20","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-15-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=9940","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When we examine our lives, where does our true focus lie?\u00a0\u00a0Do we see things through the lens of our spiritual lives, asking ourselves how our day to day decisions can lead us closer to Christ?\u00a0\u00a0Do we spend more time obsessing over the news and chatter about worldly things like politics, pandemic responses, and finance than we do reading from God\u2019s Holy Words to us in scripture?\u00a0\u00a0If we are to teach others how to embrace this life of Christ, we have to first do it ourselves by spending more time in prayer and meditating on the things above, instead of lamenting and being paralyzed by the things below.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Fr Gabriel Bilas, St Mary Magdalene Orthodox Church)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9941\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/223_724673-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/223_724673-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/223_724673-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/223_724673-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/223_724673-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/223_724673.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When we examine our lives, where does our true focus lie?\u00a0\u00a0Do we see things through the lens of our spiritual lives, asking ourselves how our day to day decisions can [&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-9940","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\/9940","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=9940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9942,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions\/9942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}