{"id":16202,"date":"2021-06-10T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2021-3questions-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T22:29:36","slug":"2021-servanthood","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2021-servanthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Servanthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16205 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/servanthood-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/servanthood-2.jpg 590w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/servanthood-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #1a344d;\">In the hallway of my memory hangs a photograph. It\u2019s a picture of two people\u2014a man and a woman in the seventh decade of life.\u00a0The man lies in a hospital bed in the living room, not in the hospital room.\u00a0His body, for all practical purposes, is useless. Muscles have been ravaged by ALS.\u00a0And even though his body is ineffective, his eyes scan the room for his partner, a woman whose age is concealed by her youthful vigor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; color: #1a344d;\">She willingly goes taking care of her husband. With unswerving loyalty she does what she\u2019s been doing for the past two years: shave him, bathe him, feed him, comb his hair, and brush his teeth.\u00a0On the day we buried my father I thanked my mom for modeling the servant spirit of Christ: quiet servanthood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16204 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/servanthood-1-e1623363701913.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":16205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-16202","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/16202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/16202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16203,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/16202\/revisions\/16203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16202"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=16202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}