{"id":3139,"date":"2011-12-12T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolene-test.com.bishopcompsol.com\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2011-12-12T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T23:49:00","slug":"small-mercies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/small-mercies\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Mercies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/shapeimage_1-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3140\" title=\"shapeimage_1-1\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/shapeimage_1-12-300x224.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/shapeimage_1-12-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/shapeimage_1-12-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/shapeimage_1-12.png 531w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small mercies.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the words that come to mind to describe yesterday afternoon. Two other women and I went to Des Moines to visit a friend. Her husband collapsed on Thursday and was rushed to Mercy Hospital where he was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He\u2019s been unresponsive ever since.<\/p>\n<p>God, in his mercy, has not yet answered our prayers for healing.<\/p>\n<p>Our friend and her husband have three sons. Just before we arrived, she sent the two older ones back to college for finals week. The family moved from our town to the Des Moines area this fall. So their younger son, a junior in high school, is still adjusting to a new high school and doesn\u2019t have many friends there yet.<\/p>\n<p>Where\u2019s the mercy in that?<\/p>\n<p>Our friend\u2019s faith is strong, but her heart is broken. She is grieving, facing hard decisions during a week when she\u2019d planned to wrap Christmas presents, plan meals, and buy groceries so her three sons could eat their parents out of house and home during Christmas break.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they face a grim and seemingly merciless holiday.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, her sister\u2019s family was with her at the hospital. Her mom flew from Arizona to be with her daughter. Her boss and her husband\u2019s boss are compassionate men who have shown great kindness. Friends have been visiting, bringing food, giving hugs, praying, laughing, crying.<\/p>\n<p>Small mercies.<\/p>\n<p>Too small for the enormity of the decisions they must make. Too small for the changes they face. Such small mercies cannot be enough, I think. And then the image of the Christ child in the manger comes to mind. So small. So weak. So humble. So poor. The Son of God who would one day bear the sin and suffering and pain of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Small mercy it seemed at the time. Yet, more than enough.<\/p>\n<p>Dear God, by your people, continue to pour mercy upon this family. Give us and them hearts to trust your mercy to be enough and more than enough. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small mercies. Those are the words that come to mind to describe yesterday afternoon. Two other women and I went to Des Moines to visit a friend. Her husband collapsed on Thursday and was rushed to Mercy Hospital where he was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He\u2019s been unresponsive ever since. 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