{"id":7650,"date":"2022-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/to-be-fertile\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:30:08","slug":"to-be-fertile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/to-be-fertile\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Fertile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a tiring virus whips away your voice, you find yourself in solitude. You do not believe that you are a world for yourself. Your belief is that, from the beginning, Man is extended towards God and people. Does the transient silence, upon which we have not decided, carry a call for us to decide upon it? Is a person, in a corner, able to move in place? This virus reminded me of Adam, our forefather, about whom the book of Genesis said that he spoke right after God made him Eve, a woman from his side, that is, he said: \u201cthis is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh\u2026\u201d (2:21-23). I know that the book mentioned that Adam named the created animals. However, before he saw Eve, there was no mention of an explicit word uttered by him. Man is an extended creature. I am not complaining about something that happened. I am not objecting to what is always useful to me, that is, to my silence. What I hope is that God will give us all to be fertile, whether we speak or are silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a tiring virus whips away your voice, you find yourself in solitude. You do not believe that you are a world for yourself. Your belief is that, from the beginning, Man is extended towards God and people. Does the transient silence, upon which we have not decided, carry a call for us to decide ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2030,2011,2726,1293,2727],"class_list":["post-7650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-adam-and-eve","tag-divine-calling","tag-fertility-in-faith","tag-orthodox-christian-life","tag-spiritual-silence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650","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=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7931,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions\/7931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}