{"id":44,"date":"2014-05-19T23:57:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=44"},"modified":"2014-05-20T02:00:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:00:04","slug":"may-19-starting-over-isnt-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"May 19 – Starting Over isn’t Easy!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chaplains are no different than other people, we all have days where things do not go well. \u00a0Last week I had the constant frustration of my cell phone battery losing 50% of its power in the first 4 hours of the day. \u00a0I went to the store and it was under warrant which saved me the cost of buying a new phone. \u00a0The service center shipped me a replacement. \u00a0It arrived today via Federal Express. \u00a0After work I went to the store to have them transfer all my data from the old phone to the new phone. \u00a0“Transferring all data<\/strong>” sounds easy, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

What I learned is that “all” did not mean everything. \u00a0All my pictures moved from phone to phone, all 93 of them. \u00a0But I had them sorted into directories. \u00a0On the new phone all my sorting had been undone. \u00a0I also use 50+ Android apps on the phone. \u00a0Instead of them moving automatically and at one time, each app downloaded separately. \u00a0Half the apps did not download on their own and I had to select each one separately and then download them. \u00a0Part of what did not move was my ringtone selections, wallpaper design, settings I use for the phone for appearance and functions. \u00a0In the end it took me several hours to get the phone 80% restored to the way I had the old phone configured.<\/p>\n

As I thought about this frustration with change I realized that helping patient’s deal with change is one of the most important things chaplains try to accomplish. \u00a0In a way my cell phone was the illness, and I was the patient waiting for healing and recovery to take place. I needed a chaplain to pray with me to remain calm instead get frustrated. \u00a0It would have been nice to have a chaplain to talk to while I was waiting for the seemingly endless amount of time it took for each item to download.<\/p>\n

Please write a reply describing a “starting over” experience you have encountered and what skills or resources you used to cope with it. \u00a0We can all learn from each other! \u00a0Have a great week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chaplains are no different than other people, we all have days where things do not go well. \u00a0Last week I had the constant frustration of my cell phone battery losing 50% of its power in the first 4 hours of the day. \u00a0I went to the store and it was under warrant which saved me … Continue reading May 19 – Starting Over isn’t Easy!<\/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-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}