{"id":7705,"date":"2022-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/before-the-end-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:30:14","slug":"before-the-end-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/before-the-end-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the End of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I encouraged myself to suggest that you seek, before the end of the year, to find time for a session of frankness with one another, the husband with his wife; the father (or mother) with his son or his daughter; the brother with his brother\u2026 If you accept the suggestion, there remains that you set for yourselves a precondition to accept any advice or remark with the peace of those who are aware that, in life, our loved ones prod us to the best. In general, we are pleased with the word that brings out the goodness and beauty that are in us. I suggest that we leave room for the word that is pleasing to God, whatever it may be. Every word that edifies us in God, is for our good. Do not say that it is a difficult suggestion. \u201cThe time is short\u201d. I know that love will cover a multitude of sins. I always insist on it. Do try this suggestion. Help yourselves to give up things that your loved ones find unworthy of you, and extend yourselves to a new era. Every human being deserves the new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I encouraged myself to suggest that you seek, before the end of the year, to find time for a session of frankness with one another, the husband with his wife; the father (or mother) with his son or his daughter; the brother with his brother\u2026 If you accept the suggestion, there remains that you ...<\/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":[1327,2012,2614,2613,1241],"class_list":["post-7705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-christian-love","tag-family-relationships","tag-orthodox-living","tag-self-improvement","tag-spiritual-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705","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=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7977,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions\/7977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}