{"id":8528,"date":"2023-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/new-years-journey-in-love\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:49:57","slug":"new-years-journey-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/new-years-journey-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year's Journey in Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If God allows us to have it all, the year is a new journey towards experiencing life with God. It was for a purpose you know that I said if He Himself allows it. No one is guaranteed the end of his day (Luke 12:20). In this life, Man is on a journey towards a fixed station, a final station. The road is clear, one of its milestones is a body that is collapsing every single day. How can God be all in my all? There is only one answer to this: in my striving to be perfected in love. This is our light in life. What have I done in my life? List as many achievements as you will. If we have not loved, then everything we have accomplished is meaningless. Do you believe in God? Do you think He gives liberally? What is your special request that you are awaiting this year? There is nothing befitting our renewal in this life other than that God gives us to grow in love more and more. The years befit those who love. Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If God allows us to have it all, the year is a new journey towards experiencing life with God. It was for a purpose you know that I said if He Himself allows it. No one is guaranteed the end of his day (Luke 12:20). In this life, Man is on a journey towards a ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[2518,1327,2609,1435,1241],"class_list":["post-8528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-agape-love","tag-christian-love","tag-new-years-journey","tag-orthodox-life","tag-spiritual-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9071,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}