{"id":688,"date":"2009-09-03T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2009-09-03T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T12:57:00","slug":"prayed-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Prayed Over!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I called my cousin the other day to see how things were. \u00a0He answered in his normal voice.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;How are things&#8221;&#8230; I asked?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Really good! The doctors can&#8217;t believe how well Johnny is doing. \u00a0He may get to go home tomorrow!&#8221; he told me, happiness oozing thorough the phone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I told him how happy I was&#8230; etc. \u00a0He told me how he couldn&#8217;t believe it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I told him that it must have been all those prays being sent his way!<\/div>\n<div>He laughed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Just shortly after Johnny was in the hospital and I had talked to him, I told him about all the people that posted that they would send prayers for them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I could hear him getting flustered. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really like talk of prayer etc.&#8221; he said&#8230; I could hear his pain.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Ujjal, people pray to do something they believe in and makes them feel like they are doing something. \u00a0It isn&#8217;t really about you&#8230; it is just a gesture. \u00a0And hey, what if God is there and listening?&#8221; \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I just let it go with there are people that are thinking of you. \u00a0Just pass that on to Johnny.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>How much \u00a0he must have been hurt to get so\u00a0agitated.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am so thankful to all of you that prayed. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I am so thankful for the extra time they have been given.<\/div>\n<div>I am so thankful that God is a God of mercy and love.<\/div>\n<div>Thank you!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I called my cousin the other day to see how things were. \u00a0He answered in his normal voice. &#8220;How are things&#8221;&#8230; I asked? &#8220;Really good! The doctors can&#8217;t believe how well Johnny is doing. \u00a0He may get to go home &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=688\">Continue reading <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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}