{"id":60,"date":"2014-05-24T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T02:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=60"},"modified":"2014-05-24T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T02:36:44","slug":"may-24-father-son-bonding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"May 24 – Father & Son Bonding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is the third day of a seven day visit with my son Erik who lives in St. Louis. \u00a0I have taken these days off from the hospital so we can have the maximum time together while he is here. \u00a0Today we had what he used to call a “lazy day” when he was age 7 or 8. \u00a0I am blessed that we can enjoy each other’s company without having to be doing something pre-planned like attending a movie or a play. \u00a0Today as we were relaxing he asked me what church we were attending on Sunday. \u00a0I notice the way he posed the question he implied were attending church as a certainty. \u00a0I asked him if he was asking because he wanted to worship or if he just assumed I had made that decision for us. \u00a0He replied that he did really want<\/strong> to attend worship. \u00a0Just hearing him say that made me feel good. \u00a0I felt good because a priority of mine has been adopted by him by choice rather than duress or bargaining \u00a0So tomorrow we plan to attend Centre Street UMC.<\/p>\n

What blessing awaits us there is yet to be seen. \u00a0But I know just having him with me will be a blessing. \u00a0 The fact that I have no responsibility during the service and can sit with him in the pew will be an extra blessing. \u00a0For the years I served local churches I was always on the altar and he was always somewhere in the congregation. \u00a0Worshiping together in the same pew, sharing a hymnal, and reading the prayers together will be a time of bonding for us as well as a time of giving glory to God! \u00a0Even though today is Saturday, I am GLAD that Sunday is coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the third day of a seven day visit with my son Erik who lives in St. Louis. \u00a0I have taken these days off from the hospital so we can have the maximum time together while he is here. \u00a0Today we had what he used to call a “lazy day” when he was age … Continue reading May 24 – Father & Son Bonding<\/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-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}