{"id":3178,"date":"2023-08-03T04:07:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T10:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2023-08-03T04:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T10:16:38","slug":"measure-seven-times-cut-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"Measure seven times, cut once"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/alexy3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/alexy3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3179\" width=\"363\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/alexy3.jpg 850w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/alexy3-323x230.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In his mentorship as an elder, father Alexei (Mechev) always led the person, under his guidance, to spiritual struggle, in other words, to the hardest and most-important. But everything hard begins with the easy. The external spiritual struggle is necessary, even the smallest. It trains the strength of will, without which any struggle, even more a spiritual one, is impossible. But before that a person has to evaluate his strength and possibilities carefully: \u201cMeasure seven times \u2013 he said \u2013 cut once\u201d. But if you have decided something, you have to do it to the end. Otherwise you won\u2018t accomplish your goal. For example the prayer rule may not be big, but it has to be done necessarily, no matter tiredness, busyness and other impediments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>From the book \u201cThe Life of the Moscow Elder Father Alexei Mechev\u201c <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his mentorship as an elder, father Alexei (Mechev) always led the person, under his guidance, to spiritual struggle, in other words, to the hardest and most-important. But everything hard begins with the easy. The external spiritual struggle is necessary, even the smallest. It trains the strength of will, without which any struggle, even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holy-fathers-wisdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}