{"id":753,"date":"2014-12-10T19:07:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T19:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=753"},"modified":"2014-12-10T19:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T19:07:52","slug":"wrong-way-to-do-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Way to Do the Right Thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My Elder wanted to remain with the zealots but I pressed him. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t do this I&#8217;ll leave.&#8221; The elder was forced to give in. When we return to our cell he said bitterly and remorselessly, &#8220;Why, boy, did you pressure me to do this thing? When I had died you could have done what ever you wanted afterwards.&#8221; The result? Grace departed for me and I remain dry without sensation or consolation. For two years I experienced abandonment and trials as a penance from God I came to understand out of the significance of dependency and obedience.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Ephraim of Katounakia<br \/>\n~Obedience is Life<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/151208_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-754\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/151208_t.jpg\" alt=\"151208_t\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My Elder wanted to remain with the zealots but I pressed him. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t do this I&#8217;ll leave.&#8221; The elder was forced to give in. When we return to our cell he said bitterly and remorselessly, &#8220;Why, boy, did you pressure me to do this thing? When I had died you could have done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}