{"id":1223,"date":"2018-06-06T20:11:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archangel-light.org\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2018-06-06T20:11:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T18:11:14","slug":"pozhertvuy-chas-blizhnogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/pozhertvuy-chas-blizhnogo\/","title":{"rendered":"Donate your neighbor's time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to understand whether it is necessary to give money to someone who asks, you need to ask God for<br \/>\nso that he enlightens the mind and prevents it from making mistakes. But most often people do not need money, but<br \/>\nlove, attention, compassion, understanding, good attitude...<br \/>\nWe show mercy, above all, when we do not push weak people away from us,<br \/>\nlisten to them or just look at them kindly. Unfortunately, in today&#039;s &quot;civilized&quot; time<br \/>\npeople became more cruel, proud, narcissistic, envious. And in general, the trend of &quot;everyone<br \/>\nby itself&quot; contributes to the fact that everyone is running somewhere, in a hurry. It&#039;s not that they don&#039;t notice what&#039;s going on<br \/>\na seriously ill person lives in the neighborhood, or someone does not have enough food, people sometimes forget<br \/>\nlook up and see the sky. The look is constantly worried about something, sees only dirt around and<br \/>\nthe grumbling of the aunt in the minibus, dissatisfied with the fare.<br \/>\nBut the Sages said: &quot;Almsgiving and meekness strengthen the soul.&quot; These words can be us<br \/>\nwise teachers on our life path. Mercy is a medicine to soften ours<br \/>\nhearts, the highest degree of love for a person Not only alms with money will help a person in his<br \/>\nproblems, but also a kind word, a kind look, help in everyday life. There are many patients who are locked in<br \/>\nwithin the four walls of their homes who have no opportunity and strength to help themselves. Such people have little<br \/>\nspending time with them in a pleasant conversation is a great comfort and medicine. You just need to show yourself<br \/>\nmercy and your soul will immediately hear little voices asking for help. May it always be for us<br \/>\nwill be examples of the lives of holy people. History knows many ascetics of faith, love and self-sacrifice<br \/>\ngood deed We need to learn from them how to give alms without money. Blessed<br \/>\nKsenia of Petersburg, Mother Teresa, Mykola Chudtoverets and many others gave their whole lives<br \/>\nservice to people. This program is designed for targeted assistance to people with disabilities<br \/>\nphysical and mental abilities, as well as their families, close relatives, who due to the formed<br \/>\nlife circumstances should constantly be near such patients. We are asking everyone<br \/>\nto help families in such a difficult situation, where your help is so needed! What you can<br \/>\nhelp:<br \/>\n1. Walks with children or adults with physical and mental disabilities;<br \/>\n2. Take part in bringing order in the room where children \/ adults with physical or<br \/>\nmental disorders;<br \/>\n3. To take part in the improvement of life in such families;<br \/>\n4. Go for groceries;<br \/>\n5. Psychological support;<br \/>\n6. Financial support;<br \/>\n7. Arrange mini holidays, entertaining and educational activities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand whether to give money to someone who asks for it, one must ask God to enlighten the mind and prevent them from making a mistake. But most often people do not need money, but love, attention, compassion, understanding, good attitude... We show mercy, first of all, when we do not push away weak people, listen to them [...].<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidkriti-proekti","category-hto-mi-ye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archangel-light.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}