{"id":9279,"date":"2025-03-29T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:00:15","slug":"simeons-words-of-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=9279","title":{"rendered":"Simeon\u2019s Words of Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"March 29, 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6HhRqtUQoqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>We are just so, so incredibly thankful for the wonderful love and support shown to Simeon with his birthday and his knee surgery that fell on his birthday.&nbsp; The knee injury was a big blow to his spirits and receiving such beautiful encouragement really meant the world to him.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Simeon received somewhere around 80 cards, letters and gifts from all over the U.S. and Canada as well as he received a gift and encouraging messages from friends in Ecuador in the project as well as from his friends in school.&nbsp; He received books from people that were sent to encourage him, one from a former professional soccer player who had to overcome the same acl injury in order to pursue his goal of playing professional soccer.&nbsp; Additionally, Simeon received words of encouragement through video messages sent from Ecuadorian professional soccer players, the kind of guys he has looked up to his whole life.&nbsp; And really that\u2019s not even covering half of what all he received as he got so many gifts from Canada and all over the U.S. and so many heartfelt and timely letters and cards to encourage Simeon in his journey.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Being his parents with great love for our son going through a difficult time, you couldn\u2019t have made us any more encouraged through your encouragement for Simeon.&nbsp; Thank you, thank you, thank you!&nbsp; We love you all!<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>And to provide an update: Simeon is doing well after his surgery.&nbsp; Every day there is a little less pain and a little more mobility, so things seem to be going well.&nbsp; He participates in Physical Therapy twice a week and does home exercises to strengthen his leg.&nbsp; He is taking less and less pain medicine so it will be good once we can wean him off that.&nbsp; His spirits have somewhat gotten better as his pain has decreased and mobility has increased, but we continue to ask for your prayers for that and his continued recovery.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=9279&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are just so, so incredibly thankful for the wonderful love and support shown to Simeon with his birthday and his knee surgery that fell on his birthday.&nbsp; The knee injury was a big blow to his spirits and receiving such beautiful encouragement really meant the world to him. &nbsp; Simeon received somewhere around 80 &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=9279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,14012,4099,24724,60,4074,126,1,72],"tags":[104,8,24652,24668,24666,24649,24650,24662,24654,24651],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun","category-home","category-home-assignment","category-ministry-assignment","category-prayer-requests","category-reflections","category-simeon","category-uncategorized","category-updates","tag-answered-prayers","tag-blog","tag-family-fun","tag-home","tag-home-assignment","tag-ministry","tag-prayer-requests","tag-reflections","tag-simeon","tag-updates"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Simeon\u2019s Words of Gratitude - Delplog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=9279\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Simeon\u2019s Words of Gratitude - Delplog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are just so, so incredibly thankful for the wonderful love and support shown to Simeon with his birthday and his knee surgery that fell on his birthday.&nbsp; 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