{"id":953,"date":"2008-12-09T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=953"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:44","slug":"losing-a-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Losing a son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_1.JPG\" border='0' alt=''style='clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>I&#8217;m just back from Matt Silliman&#8217;s Memorial Service.<br \/>I&#8217;ve been gripped by such deep sadness in his death:( I didn&#8217;t know him personally but I know his mom &#038; dad. I have tried to wrap my brain around the horrific fact of losing a child, a son:(<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Andy &#038; our Youth Leader Todd spoke precious, powerful, words of comfort. <br \/>When a beloved one dies, especially a child, the family yearns for encouraging words. <br \/>Today, at Peace, there was an overflow of healing words poured out upon 600+ people.<br \/>Did everyone hear it?<br \/>Did everyone know what great truth was given?<\/p>\n<p>We need to know that a life cut short was lived well. <br \/>Matt&#8217;s was well lived.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Holy Spirit, comfort this dear family who will sorely miss Matt on this side of Heaven.<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;I&#8217;m just back from Matt Silliman&#8217;s Memorial Service.I&#8217;ve been gripped by such deep sadness in his death:( I didn&#8217;t know him personally but I know his mom &#038; dad. I have tried to wrap my brain around the horrific fact of losing a child, a son:( Pastor Andy &#038; our Youth Leader Todd spoke precious, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}