{"id":781,"date":"2015-03-26T21:49:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T06:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=781"},"modified":"2015-03-27T01:59:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T10:59:02","slug":"mar-26-patient-prays-for-the-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Mar. 26 &#8211; Patient Prays for the Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Mar. 26 &#8211; Patient Prays for the Chaplain\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=781\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chaplain_praying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-782\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/chaplain_praying.jpg\" alt=\"chaplain_praying\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like most of the pictures I have used this is a stock picture from the internet and not a picture of an actual patient from our health system.\u00a0 (Privacy rights prohibit the use of pictures of actual patients.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every week I pray for many patients.\u00a0 I don\u2019t keep track of the number of people I pray for from week to week, but prayer is component of a high percentage of my patient encounters.\u00a0 Today something happened that does not happen frequently.\u00a0 After I prayed for the patient, the patient prayed for me.\u00a0 I was pleased to be the beneficiary of the prayer and also struggled to remember the last time that happened, I do know it has happened at least one other time in the past 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am impressed when people want to pray for me even though there is no expectation that they have to offer a prayer.\u00a0 Perhaps that is the heart of prayer; <strong>we do it because we want to and not because we have to!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Like most of the pictures I have used this is a stock picture from the internet and not a picture of an actual patient from our health system.\u00a0 (Privacy rights prohibit the use of pictures of actual patients.) &nbsp; Every week I pray for many patients.\u00a0 I don\u2019t keep track of the number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mar. 26 &#8211; Patient Prays for the Chaplain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}