{"id":144,"date":"2023-07-04T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/?p=144"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:33:18","slug":"freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/2023\/07\/04\/freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris woke and felt well, and today, Day 9, of the second cycle he took a short 15 min run with Lucas! Freedom!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His blood draw results on Monday went very well. We got a call from our nurse and we have been freed to not have any more blood draws until the next round of chemo! We have gone from blood draws every 3-4 days a week to just 1-2 every 21 days! It feels like we just got a HUGE gift! Freedom! Who doesn&#8217;t love more freedom!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris still needs naps.\u00a0 He rests about 1-3 times a day for various amounts of time.\u00a0 It makes a big difference in his overall energy.  He had nausea after chemo but less than Round 1.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Freedom is not free, there is usually a cost\u2026and there was for each of us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus\u2019 sacrifice brought true and lasting freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because Jesus is our Immanuel, God with us, we can be truly free, even in the midst of suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My reflections on Psalm 139:7-10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where can I go from your Spirit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where can I flee from your presence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I fly on many planes and live in different continents, you are there;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I rest my head on different pillows, some hard, some soft, you are there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I have have your hope and joy in the morning, if I have times of deep sadness and loss,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-2642-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-2642-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-2642-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-2642-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-2642-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-2642-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris woke and felt well, and today, Day 9, of the second cycle he took a short 15 min run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}