{"id":82,"date":"2014-05-12T00:59:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T00:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=82"},"modified":"2014-05-12T01:02:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T01:02:58","slug":"detachment-love-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Detachment &#038; Love for All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #404040;\">Once, and amazed acquaintance asked him [Elder Paisios] why he never went back home. &#8220;I left my parents out of love for Christ,&#8221; replied the elder, &#8220;and I made a promise so I can&#8217;t stay at my family&#8217;s house anymore. For me all the people in the world are my parents, my brothers and sisters, and my relatives.&#8221; This was the ultimate goal of his estrangement from the world he once remarked characteristically, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t done anything. But even though I used to have just seven siblings, God, who is so good, has granted me to feel that everyone in the world is my brother.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">Elder Paisios<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">~Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\">And Jesus answered and said , Verily I say unto you , There is no man that hath left house , or brethren , or sisters , or father , or mother , or wife , or children , or lands , for my sake , and the gospel&#8217;s, \u00a0But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time , houses , and brethren , and sisters , and mothers , and children , and lands ,<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #404040;\">\n<div>Mark 10:29, 30<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/meal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/meal.jpg\" alt=\"meal\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once, and amazed acquaintance asked him [Elder Paisios] why he never went back home. &#8220;I left my parents out of love for Christ,&#8221; replied the elder, &#8220;and I made a promise so I can&#8217;t stay at my family&#8217;s house anymore. For me all the people in the world are my parents, my brothers and sisters, [&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-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}