{"id":248,"date":"2011-11-09T02:37:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T02:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancullen.net\/stories\/?p=248"},"modified":"2011-11-09T02:37:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T02:37:59","slug":"my-wife-loved-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/2011\/11\/09\/my-wife-loved-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"My Wife Loved Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you help me?&#8220; the man asked. He&#8217;d bought some heavy bags of soil &#038; couldn&#8217;t lift them. &#8222;Sure,&#8220; I said &#038; began putting the bags in his car. As I was doing this he says, &#8222;my wife passed away. She loved flowers.&#8220; I turn &#038; look at him. He has the most beautiful smile. &#8222;Which flower was her favorite?&#8220; I ask. &#8222;All of them,&#8220; he says. His smile is radiant. Then, he touches my shoulder &#038; asks &#8222;How are you doing these days?&#8220; I&#8217;ve never seen this guy before in my life. &#8222;Me? I&#8217;m doing good,&#8220; I say. &#8222;Well, it&#8217;s a beautiful world. Have fun everyday,&#8220; he says. Then he gets in his car, waves, &#038; drives off. I get into my car &#038; sit there for a minute. Then, I burst into tears. Later, out in my garden this enormous happiness come over me. Here&#8217;s the question: Who showed who compassion? Today, give -and- receive. Galatians 6:2 \u202a#\u200eLent2014\u202c \u202a#\u200eDay25\u202c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you help me?&#8220; the man asked. He&#8217;d bought some heavy bags of soil &#038; couldn&#8217;t lift them. &#8222;Sure,&#8220; I said &#038; began putting the bags in his car. As I was doing this he says, &#8222;my wife passed away. She loved flowers.&#8220; I turn &#038; look at him. He has the most beautiful smile. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}