{"id":1154,"date":"2010-04-07T13:38:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2010-04-07T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:38:21","slug":"hopeful-thought-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2010\/04\/07\/hopeful-thought-for-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From St. Isaac of Syria, a Christian monk who lived in the 7th  Century:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No one has understanding if he is not humble,  and he who lacks humility is devoid of understanding.<\/p>\n<p>No one is  humble if he is not at peace, and he who is not at peace is not humble.\u00a0  And no one is at peace without rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p>In all the paths on  which people journey in this world they will find no peace until they  draw near to the hope which is in God.<\/p>\n<p>The heart finds no peace  from toil and from stumbling-blocks until it is brought close to hope &#8212;  which makes it peaceful and pours joy into it.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the  venerable and holy lips of our Lord said:\u00a0 &#8216;Come unto me all who are  weary and heave laden, and I will give you rest.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Draw near, he  says, to hope in me; desist from the many ways and you will find rest  from labor and fear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From St. Isaac of Syria, a Christian monk who lived in the 7th Century: No one has understanding if he is not humble, and he who lacks humility is devoid of understanding. No one is humble if he is not at peace, and he who is not at peace is not humble.\u00a0 And no one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hopeful-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-iC","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}