{"id":9363,"date":"2024-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/the-blind-man-from-birth\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T21:00:00","slug":"the-blind-man-from-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/the-blind-man-from-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blind Man from Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a parable of the person who lives by the grace of God (John 9: 1-38). Who knew about me? I am nonexistent. My kinsfolk and my neighbors did not deny me; rather, they revealed my truth. I am a person born today. Neither my mother nor my father nor anyone else recognizes me. Today, Jesus has recreated me with some mud, with a word and water. I understand those who have denied me. Like them, I do not acknowledge myself before today. Even you, look at yourselves; who among you knew about me before today? Simply put, this is my entire story. Those who opposed me after seeing me regain my sight, that is, after I was reborn, wanted me to be nonexistent. I do not know why they hate that I exist now! They asked me about myself and about what had happened to me. My answer was always to recount what Jesus had done for me. I told my story to them repeatedly. This is the language I know. My past has fallen away. My old language has fallen away. My healing has become my identity and my story. This is me. I am a Man whom Jesus has raised to a new life. This is \"my Lord and my God.\" This is my Mother and Father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a parable of the person who lives by the grace of God (John 9: 1-38). Who knew about me? I am nonexistent. My kinsfolk and my neighbors did not deny me; rather, they revealed my truth. I am a person born today. Neither my mother nor my father nor anyone else recognizes me. ...<\/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":[361,1655,1656,1654,1293,447,1653],"class_list":["post-9363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-church","tag-divine-grace","tag-healing-miracle","tag-jesus-christ","tag-orthodox-christian-life","tag-orthodox-church","tag-spiritual-rebirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363","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=9363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}