{"id":3436,"date":"2024-02-28T04:41:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2024-02-28T04:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T11:49:15","slug":"my-lord-do-whatever-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=3436","title":{"rendered":"My Lord, do whatever you want"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/286947951_5377354782325722_6016045671077239935_n.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/286947951_5377354782325722_6016045671077239935_n-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3437\" style=\"width:260px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/286947951_5377354782325722_6016045671077239935_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/286947951_5377354782325722_6016045671077239935_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/286947951_5377354782325722_6016045671077239935_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/286947951_5377354782325722_6016045671077239935_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/286947951_5377354782325722_6016045671077239935_n-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/286947951_5377354782325722_6016045671077239935_n.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When life goes wrong, when expectations are not fulfilled according to our ideas, when relationships in our family are difficult, when our children are not progressing, when illness and incurable diseases occur, when we do not know what to do, when we cannot find peace, when we are unable to learn, when we cannot pray and feel completely lost &#8211; let us not lose hope. 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Then we really understand what it means that &#8220;Jonah cried out of the fish&#8217;s belly and was saved&#8221; and that &#8220;Christ is risen from the dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Arhimadrite Vasilios of Iveron<\/em><br><em>Source: Monastery Podmaine<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When life goes wrong, when expectations are not fulfilled according to our ideas, when relationships in our family are difficult, when our children are not progressing, when illness and incurable diseases occur, when we do not know what to do, when we cannot find peace, when we are unable to learn, when we cannot pray 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