{"id":238,"date":"2014-07-21T21:54:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T06:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=238"},"modified":"2014-07-22T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T10:55:07","slug":"july-21-unexpected-good-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"July 21 – Unexpected Good-bye"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently I posted an entry on a Flea Market held at our church. \u00a0Today I found out that one of our active members who was at the Flea Market had a massive stroke and by noon she had died. \u00a0Being a chaplain I get many calls about patient deaths. \u00a0This particular call affected me differently than the others because I had a connection to the patient that existed prior to her hospital admission.<\/p>\n

As I went through the emotions and thoughts of processing the knowledge of her death I realized that what I was experiencing at the moment was probably very similar to what friends and family members experience when I am dealing with them as a chaplain when a patient dead happens. \u00a0I learned about myself, I learned how unsettling the realization was momentarily that none of us knows that for sure we will have a tomorrow here on earth. \u00a0Then I reached into my faith beliefs. \u00a0My faith tells me that whether I die suddenly or with a lot of warning that death will come – I will move from earth to heaven to be with my Lord and God. \u00a0I am very thankful that I have that assurance. \u00a0It is particularly important when events like the sudden death yesterday come along and remind us in a profound way that our life on earth is only temporary whether than temporary period is 2 days or 95 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I posted an entry on a Flea Market held at our church. \u00a0Today I found out that one of our active members who was at the Flea Market had a massive stroke and by noon she had died. \u00a0Being a chaplain I get many calls about patient deaths. \u00a0This particular call affected me differently … Continue reading July 21 – Unexpected Good-bye<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}