They were companions of the same age, gathered in the Church hall. They were all around ten years old. I approached them, greeted them and asked them: \u201cwhat do you want to do when you grow up?\u201d. They gave me various answers. One of them confidently said: \"I want to become a writer\"! Her answer surprised me. Did she mean to say what she knew would make me happy? I asked her: \u201cwhat do you want to write about?\u201d. She seemed as if she was prepared for my question. Confidently also, she said: \u201cabout joy and sorrow; about those who bully their brethren and friends, who bully others at home and out of it\u201d! I thought she was asking for my help with something I do not know. I asked her nothing. I kept what I have until after the meeting. However, I saved her from the stunned and prying eyes of her companions by saying: \u201cyou made me happy. Consider me, from today, as one of your readers\u201d. Talking to children always opens for you doors for work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They were companions of the same age, gathered in the Church hall. They were all around ten years old. I approached them, greeted them and asked them: \u201cwhat do you want to do when you grow up?\u201d. They gave me various answers. One of them confidently said: \"I want to become a writer\"! Her answer ...<\/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":[2721,1482,2364,2723,2722],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-children-in-church","tag-christian-social-life","tag-orthodox-christian-education","tag-writing-and-faith","tag-youth-aspirations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7934,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/7934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}