{"id":7695,"date":"2022-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/posts\/within-reach-of-water-and-the-word\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T05:30:13","slug":"within-reach-of-water-and-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/reflections\/within-reach-of-water-and-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Within Reach of Water and the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting out of brotherly visits at a nearby hospital. I met her in the elevator. She looked at me with a look of affection that reminded me of my mother. We had a quick chat. I enjoined her to be serious about wearing the mask, at the hospital. Lebanon is concealing a lot of its weaknesses. In it, the upcoming holidays always consist of trade that can afford no loss! I asked her: \u201cWho do you have here?\u201d. She said: \"my son is in the intensive care floor\". My face froze. I did not ask her about his illness, but about his name. Her face opened up. She understood that I would love to join her in praying for him. She mentioned to me his first, middle and family name. This is due to the thoroughness of the desire to pray to God, my Lord and hers. I prayed for her son in front of her. I confidently pronounced his first name, Muhammad. She teared up. I sought the assistance of a well-known Saint who addressed a mother about her son who had another illness. I told her, in an adapted way: \u201cGod does not abandon the son of these tears\u201d. God is always present within reach of water and the Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting out of brotherly visits at a nearby hospital. I met her in the elevator. She looked at me with a look of affection that reminded me of my mother. We had a quick chat. I enjoined her to be serious about wearing the mask, at the hospital. Lebanon is concealing a lot ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[1381,2441,2344,1516,2440],"class_list":["post-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-divine-mercy","tag-hospital-ministry","tag-intercessory-prayer","tag-orthodox-christian-love","tag-prayer-for-healing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7968,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fatherelia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}