{"id":409,"date":"2014-09-09T21:47:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=409"},"modified":"2014-09-10T01:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:59:18","slug":"sept-9-what-would-the-world-be-like-without-_______________","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Sept 9 – What would the world be like without _______________?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One day I was working with a person who was in grief over the death of someone special.\u00a0 Because of the high level of emotional grief in play the person was scared of how to write an obituary that gave proper respect for all the deceased person had done. \u00a0I suggested that before anything was written on paper that the loved one should ask this question, \u201cWhat would my life be like without _________?\u201d<\/p>\n

Later when I had read the obituary and then saw the person who wrote I commented on how respectfully and completely the obituary summarized the life of the deceased.\u00a0 The author of the obituary said my question was helpful.\u00a0 It helped change the focus from what was lost through death to what had been gained through living. <\/strong>\u00a0When a lot of people hear the title \u201cchaplain\u201d they associate it with prayer.\u00a0 Chaplaincy often times is more focused on helping us process our thoughts and reconcile them with our emotions than it is with prayer.\u00a0 The instance I have described is just one time out of many where a change in the angle at which we approach a painful moment makes all the difference in how well or how poorly we are able to deal with emotional pain.\u00a0 I offer you the invitation to change perspective when you are trapped by painful emotions that keep you from moving forward.
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One day I was working with a person who was in grief over the death of someone special.\u00a0 Because of the high level of emotional grief in play the person was scared of how to write an obituary that gave proper respect for all the deceased person had done. \u00a0I suggested that before anything was … Continue reading Sept 9 – What would the world be like without _______________?<\/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-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}