{"id":80,"date":"2014-06-01T16:47:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T01:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=80"},"modified":"2014-06-01T16:47:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T01:47:35","slug":"june-1-a-time-to-say-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"June 1 &#8211; A Time to say Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"June 1 &#8211; A Time to say Farewell\" 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=80\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"font-weight: 300; font-style: inherit;\"><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Today at the church I attend we had a farewell luncheon for our pastor who will be ending her tenure as our pastor at the end of the month. \u00a0I watched people today looking at their facial expressions. \u00a0What I observed is many people felt it was a sad moment because they are going to miss our pastor. \u00a0At the luncheon I was able to lighten the mood as I told a funny story about our pastor and the dog I owned when I first started attending the church. \u00a0The entire room laughed, and laughter was the right ingredient at the right time to lessen the stress people were feeling. \u00a0I am also aware of my own emotions around her departure. \u00a0I realized I have conflicting emotions at this time. \u00a0June will be a month of sorting out how I feel and adjusting to change. \u00a0God\u2019s love will get everyone in our congregation through this time of change, and for that certainty I give God thanks and praise beyond measure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at the church I attend we had a farewell luncheon for our pastor who will be ending her tenure as our pastor at the end of the month. \u00a0I watched people today looking at their facial expressions. \u00a0What I observed is many people felt it was a sad moment because they are going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=80\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June 1 &#8211; A Time to say Farewell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}