{"id":6667,"date":"2021-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/god-the-meaning\/blog-post\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T07:35:54","slug":"god-the-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/god-the-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"God the Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Anything I separate from God is meaningless. I am meaningless. My life is meaningless; my emotions; my friendships; what I remember or forget is meaningless. My education is meaningless. What I do well or lamely is meaningless. My works and accomplishments are meaningless. My failure is meaningless. My marriage is meaningless; my children; my grandchildren. What I possess or am deprived of is meaningless. What I get or desire, gain or lose, is meaningless. My poverty is meaningless. My wealth is meaningless. My frailty is meaningless. My strength is meaningless. What I practice or neglect is meaningless. My prayer, my fasting, my alms are meaningless. What I read or write is meaningless. Anything that is meaningful to me is meaningless. Everything that belongs to me acquires its meaning if I am totally transformed into an offering that is lifted up to God Who, alone, gives everything its meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anything I separate from God is meaningless. I am meaningless. My life is meaningless; my emotions; my friendships; what I remember or forget is meaningless. My education is meaningless. What I do well or lamely is meaningless. My works and accomplishments are meaningless. My failure is meaningless. My marriage is meaningless; my children; my grandchildren. ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":6710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[369,371,377,368,366,372,376,375,374,370],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reflections","tag-education","tag-failure","tag-fasting","tag-friendship","tag-life","tag-marriage","tag-prayer","tag-strength","tag-wealth","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9580,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions\/9580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}