{"id":5886,"date":"2019-08-27T20:59:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2019-08-27T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T19:59:07","slug":"church-and-hospital-goodbyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2019\/08\/27\/church-and-hospital-goodbyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Church and hospital goodbyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/08\/blog-Hospital-goodbye-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5887\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/08\/blog-Hospital-goodbye-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/08\/blog-Hospital-goodbye-1.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/08\/blog-Hospital-goodbye-1-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am undone, overwhelmed with being loved.\u00a0 So many people saying thank you.\u00a0 Hugs and tears and breaking your heart words of love and encouragement, about our 21 years in CAR and about Dad\u2019s passing away, emotions running in deep rivers, not to swamp over me, but to carry me through to Thursday, when we get in the car to begin our journey to leave CAR and all of central Africa definitively.\u00a0 Words to carry me through with memories to last a lifetime. 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Oh, how we have been blessed, with friendships and work to do, with time enough to be encouraging and to be encouraged.\u00a0 God has stretched us with plenty of challenges but has always been at our side, in our hearts, through it all.\u00a0 All we can say is thank you.\u00a0 Thank you to the ones who are thanking us, especially for being our family on this side of the ocean.\u00a0 Thank you to all of you, on the other side of the ocean, who have helped carry us all these years with your prayers and support.\u00a0 Thanks be to the Lord, the one who gives the gifts, creates the people, and allows us to choose.\u00a0 He allows us to choose to become more like Him, to seek Him in happy times and hard times.\u00a0 Our hearts are full to overflowing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=5886&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am undone, overwhelmed with being loved.\u00a0 So many people saying thank you.\u00a0 Hugs and tears and breaking your heart words of love and encouragement, about our 21 years in CAR and about Dad\u2019s passing away, emotions running in deep &hellip; 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