{"id":1991,"date":"2009-05-05T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2021-05-31T18:29:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:29:50","slug":"consolation-and-the-nice-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1991","title":{"rendered":"Consolation and &#8220;the nice man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/3guys_36524.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Our church is going to have some of our supported missionaries visit us this month. I&#8217;ve met some amazing missionaries in the past few years, and I look forward to reconnecting with these people when they stop through. As I ponder some of the past missions events we&#8217;ve had, along with some of the wonderful missionary families who have come, I was reminded about a pair of stories that really struck me as a relatively new husband and new Daddy. Click below to listen.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center>These moving words were spoken by a missionary to the Pacific who visited our church this weekend. He&#8217;s been on the field it seems like forever, and you can tell from his stories that he&#8217;s made some great sacrifices over the years as all missionaries do. I&#8217;d love to give him direct credit, but some of these guys take a risk being in the field, often political and sometimes physical. Putting their names on the Internet can sometimes cause unintended harm and I&#8217;d hate to risk doing so.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1991-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2009\/05\/Consolation-and-the-Nice-Man.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2009\/05\/Consolation-and-the-Nice-Man.mp4\">https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2009\/05\/Consolation-and-the-Nice-Man.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Hopefully by electronically enabling you to hear this man&#8217;s words, which moved me as I struggle to be a good daddy and provide my little boys with blessed memories, I can pass along some of that consolation he was talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our church is going to have some of our supported missionaries visit us this month. I&#8217;ve met some amazing missionaries in the past few years, and I look forward to reconnecting with these people when they stop through. As I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1991\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6914,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/6914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}