{"id":7691,"date":"2022-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/the-law-of-life\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:30:12","slug":"the-law-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-law-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while I was walking, the sight of a woman driving her car responsibly caught my attention. She was holding the steering wheel with both hands. I saw her well. She had her hands visible over the steering wheel. Where is the cigarette, the loyal friend to many people in the car and elsewhere? I said: maybe this lady does not smoke. All right! Where is the mobile phone, the use of which is seizing us in every way? I liked to see, in this avoidance of smoking and phone calls, a deliberate commitment to the law of life, her own life as well as the lives of others. I will not be exaggerating in showing my feelings if I told you: \u201cthis sight made me very happy\u201d. Those who teach us the Truth with their conduct are the soul of this world. I did not let this teacher pass without sending along with her the hope that God will always keep her in peace. Those who respect life on earth deserve all our love and our prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while I was walking, the sight of a woman driving her car responsibly caught my attention. She was holding the steering wheel with both hands. I saw her well. She had her hands visible over the steering wheel. Where is the cigarette, the loyal friend to many people in the car and elsewhere? I ...<\/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":[2210,1498,2614,2644,1430],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-acts-of-kindness","tag-christian-conduct","tag-orthodox-living","tag-respect-for-life","tag-social-responsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","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=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions\/7965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}