{"id":8038,"date":"2022-08-29T01:57:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T01:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/numberourdays.org\/?p=5"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:15:33","slug":"3-ways-to-exhort-the-aging-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/?p=8038","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Exhort the Aging by R. Paul Stevens (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;At 80 years old, my father\u2014an active and productive person through his youth and midlife\u2014had a double stroke and spent his last years unable to speak and eat. He simply was. I used to fly to Toronto, where he was hospitalized, and sit by his bed, reading to him, praying with him, and, perhaps most important of all, acknowledging he was precious and a gift\u2014not that he <em>had<\/em> gifts or was <em>using<\/em> gifts but that he <em>was<\/em> a gift. I often wished I could understand what he was thinking, feeling, and experiencing, but, alas, he could not speak. He had shifted from doing to being [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/3-ways-to-exhort-the-aging\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;<\/a>]&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At 80 years old, my father\u2014an active and productive person through his youth and midlife\u2014had a double stroke and spent his last years unable to speak and eat. He simply was. I used to fly to Toronto, where he was hospitalized, and sit by his bed, reading to him, praying with him, and, perhaps most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-8038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-number-our-days","tag-numberourdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8068,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8038\/revisions\/8068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}