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We had scarcely become acquainted with a couple in our congregation when their only son Barry was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor.\u00a0 Within two weeks, this young\u00a0man with the physique\u00a0 of a top athlete was in a hospital for the terminally ill.<\/p>\n
At the time, our little church was without a pastor, but my husband Leo had made himself available as a lay minister in case of emergencies .\u00a0 When the phone rang one evening and Barry’s mother introduced herself, I could sense the anguish in her voice even before she explained the situation “Would your husband please come?’\u00a0Feeling inadequate, Leo never the less drove to the hospital that evening and continued to visit for the next several weeks.<\/p>\n
One evening I decided to accompany Leo Barry’s mother spied meat\u00a0 at the end of the long corridor and came hurrying to greet me, her arms enfolding me in a welcome hug.\u00a0 “Oh she said, “you’ve got; no idea what your presence means!”\u00a0I had worried about what words of consolation I could\u00a0\u00a0bring, so I merely sat with her, “with no one speaking a word,”for I saw that her pain was very great”.<\/p>\n
Lord make\u00a0 me not underestimate\u00a0 the importance of merely being there\u00a0– Alma<\/strong><\/p>\n Today\u2019s Inspiration Station With Rhonnie Scheuerman Author: Alma Barkman We had scarcely become acquainted with a couple in our congregation when their only son Barry was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor.\u00a0 Within two weeks, this young\u00a0man with the physique\u00a0 of a top athlete was in a hospital for the terminally ill. At the time, our little church was without a pastor, but my husband Leo had made himself available as a lay minister in case of emergencies .\u00a0 When the phone rang one evening and Barry’s mother introduced herself,<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"