Yesterday, my friend did not sleep. News of the hospital in Gaza almost carried him where he does not wish. He said to me: how can I sleep while some people in Gaza are on the earth and some are under the earth? Upon my life, my bed will not accept me. There was a pinch of cold in the night. I told myself that I should experience some of the pain of the homeless. I went out to the balcony and laid down on the ground. There was a swing that recognized me. I did not look at it. I could not. I remained without water and electricity until the morning. I was homeless in my own home. When the sun brushed me, in the morning, with some of its warmth, it granted me a strange feeling that I seemed to have never known before. I have known the sun for forty-five years, ever since my parents took me out of the hospital on the day I was born, in that scorching summer. However, this morning, I felt that the sun was caressing me, that it loved me, that I was an embraced homeless. When the betrayal of the earth, that is of the people of the earth, to Palestine and its people, is complete, heaven remains a friend. Heaven is more loyal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday, my friend did not sleep. News of the hospital in Gaza almost carried him where he does not wish. He said to me: how can I sleep while some people in Gaza are on the earth and some are under the earth? Upon my life, my bed will not accept me. There was 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":[1740,361,1266,1958,1293,447,1307],"class_list":["post-9132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-betrayal","tag-church","tag-gaza-crisis","tag-loyalty","tag-orthodox-christian-life","tag-orthodox-church","tag-suffering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","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=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}