{"id":390,"date":"2010-11-30T09:57:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=390"},"modified":"2010-12-04T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T19:11:30","slug":"remembering-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord; Sometimes Father, music can reach into our soul and touch our hearts in ways that words simply can\u2019t.\u00a0 Most people I know have one or more songs that just hit a raw nerve and evoke amazing emotional responses.\u00a0 In my case, it has to do with one that I first heard shortly after Jonathan was born and we were living at A.I. Dupont Hospital for Children dealing with his Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.\u00a0 As You know, I spent each evening driving back and forth to the hospital to spend as much time with him and Shannon as I could while still keeping the bill collectors off our backs.\u00a0 The radio was my friend on those long lonely rides, and one night while coming home a new song came on that I hadn\u2019t heard before.\u00a0 It was a dedication on the <a title=\"Delilah - Love Someone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delilah.com\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\">Delilah<\/a> show for a man whose son was fighting cancer.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t hit me at first, but as I listened to the haunting music and lyrics my heart caved, tears started pouring from my eyes and I had to pull the truck over.\u00a0 The song was by a Christian Artist named <a title=\"Mark Schultz Music\" href=\"http:\/\/markschultzmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Schultz<\/a> and it was called He\u2019s My Son.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.godtube.com\/embed\/source\/00cfcnnu.js?w=500&#038;h=319&#038;ap=false&#038;sl=true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of life-changing moments during those years Father, and that was one of them.\u00a0 I of course ended up buying the CD with that song on it, and have listened to it many times since (as well as the rest of the music on it\u2026 He\u2019s quite good).\u00a0 Thank You for bringing me that emotional release that night, and for speaking to me in the darkness.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord; Sometimes Father, music can reach into our soul and touch our hearts in ways that words simply can\u2019t.\u00a0 Most people I know have one or more songs that just hit a raw nerve and evoke amazing emotional responses.\u00a0 In my case, it has to do with one that I first heard shortly after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[260,259,150,262,5,120,116,119,261,257,263,227,117,258],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-delilah-show","tag-driving","tag-emotions","tag-hes-my-son","tag-healing","tag-hospital","tag-jonathan","tag-langerhans-cell-histiocytosis","tag-mark-schultz","tag-music","tag-release","tag-shannon","tag-son","tag-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-6i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}