{"id":454,"date":"2014-10-06T21:43:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T06:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=454"},"modified":"2014-10-07T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T10:56:39","slug":"october-6-i-almost-missed-the-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"October 6 – I almost missed the funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is not a picture of my desk.\u00a0 I found it on the Internet to illustrate my day.\u00a0 A volunteer came to my desk today asking to have a piece of scotch tape.\u00a0 I was in the process of trying to catch up on 8 items at the same time.\u00a0 She went on to tell me she had a sympathy card for someone who works in our office suite.\u00a0 That is when and how I learned that my friend\u2019s father had died.\u00a0 The funeral was to start in less than an hour, and I had missed the visitation the night before.\u00a0 In my heart and head, I knew where I needed to be: at the funeral home to support my friend.\u00a0 My desk work was not more important than my friendship.\u00a0 So I immediately put my work away and rushed to the funeral home.\u00a0 I am so glad I did not miss out on the funeral and the luncheon that followed.\u00a0 Her father would have been so happy to see his family come together to remember, honor, and commend him to the Heavenly kingdom.\u00a0 Her Dad and I met many times.\u00a0 The first time we met he did me a favor at watched my dog so I could go to work.\u00a0 Then I met him as he volunteered at the Information Desk at the hospital.\u00a0 Later I spent time with him during several hospitalizations.\u00a0 I will always remember his smile and the accent of his voice.\u00a0 He is at peace with the Lord and no longer limited by the health issues he faced.<\/p>\n

I could have skipped the funeral and later told my friend I cared.\u00a0 That would not do for me because I feel that part of caring is taking the time be with someone at significant moments in life.<\/p>\n

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This is not a picture of my desk.\u00a0 I found it on the Internet to illustrate my day.\u00a0 A volunteer came to my desk today asking to have a piece of scotch tape.\u00a0 I was in the process of trying to catch up on 8 items at the same time.\u00a0 She went on to tell … Continue reading October 6 – I almost missed the funeral<\/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-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}