{"id":25130,"date":"2009-12-01T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/prayer-for-those-who-suffer-wi\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T18:46:09","slug":"prayer-for-those-who-suffer-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/prayer-for-those-who-suffer-wi\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Those Who Suffer with HIV, AIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/World%20AIDS%20Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"World AIDS Day.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/12\/World AIDS Day-thumb-250x218-5132.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"218\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">God of our<br \/>\nweary years, God of our silent tears, O Good and gracious God, you are the God<br \/>\nof health and wholeness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">In the plan of your creation, you call us to struggle<br \/>\nin our sickness and to cling always to the cross of your Son. Father, we are<br \/>\nyour servants. Many of us are now suffering with HIV or AIDS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">We come before<br \/>\nyou, and ask you, if it is your holy will, to take away this suffering from us,<br \/>\nto restore us to health and to lead us to know you and your powerful healing,<br \/>\nlove of body and spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">We ask you also to be with those of us who nurse your<br \/>\nsick ones. We are the mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, and friends<br \/>\nof your suffering people. It is so hard for us to see those whom we love<br \/>\nsuffer. You know what it is to suffer. Help us to minister in loving care, support,<br \/>\nand patience to your people who suffer with HIV and AIDS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Lead us to do<br \/>\nwhatever it will take to eradicate this illness from the lives of those who are<br \/>\ntouched by it, both directly and indirectly. Trusting in you and the strength<br \/>\nof your Spirit, we pray these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, O Good and gracious God, you are the God of health and wholeness. In the plan of your creation, you call us to struggle in our sickness and to cling always to the cross of your Son. Father, we are your servants. Many of us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/prayer-for-those-who-suffer-wi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prayer for Those Who Suffer with HIV, AIDS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2241,2242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}