{"id":4403,"date":"2009-03-21T00:31:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T06:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2013-06-12T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T18:00:04","slug":"death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/death\/","title":{"rendered":"Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bengt Ekerot as Death, from the film Det Sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) (1957). From Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Brother Dan mentioned very eloquently yesterday…<\/p>\n

“Sometimes death comes as the enemy, a thief in the night<\/a>” — bringing hurt<\/a>, pain<\/a> and suffering<\/span>.<\/p>\n

“But sometimes death comes as a friend<\/a>” — bringing mercy, relief and an end to suffering.<\/p>\n

Yet whenever and however death comes, it leaves behind a gaping hole in those left behind.<\/p>\n

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, naked I’ll return to the womb of the earth.
\nGod gives, God takes. God’s name be ever blessed.” – Job 1:21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Brother Dan mentioned very eloquently yesterday… “Sometimes death comes as the enemy, a thief in the night” — bringing hurt, pain and suffering. “But sometimes death comes as a friend” — bringing mercy, relief and an end to suffering. Yet whenever and however death comes, it leaves behind a gaping hole in those left … Continue reading Death<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[885,973,1964,1963],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections","tag-amy-blundell","tag-death","tag-deryl-knotts","tag-tom-lehmann"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sEnSo-death","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11313,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions\/11313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}