{"id":461,"date":"2012-05-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/05\/firepower.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:48:35","slug":"firepower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/05\/firepower.html","title":{"rendered":"Firepower"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-QRvdUAkGO1U\/T7k7_8kKtHI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/spO1XBQRLIk\/s1600\/ella.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-QRvdUAkGO1U\/T7k7_8kKtHI\/AAAAAAAABN8\/spO1XBQRLIk\/s400\/ella.jpg\" width=\"238\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday morning, our beloved #4 received Her Lord in the Eucharist for the first time.\u00a0 She was beautiful and resolute as she approached the altar.\u00a0 At last the day she had waited for had arrived.\u00a0 She walked up the aisle with only a small limp, so vastly improved from the awkward lurch of a month ago.\u00a0 God had heard her prayer that she not have to do it \u201cwith my cane or a wheelchair.\u00a0 I want to be able to walk it.\u201d And she did.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-aBVXO6WN4S8\/T7k-GOL64LI\/AAAAAAAABOM\/WjZAl6tFU3Y\/s1600\/practice.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-aBVXO6WN4S8\/T7k-GOL64LI\/AAAAAAAABOM\/WjZAl6tFU3Y\/s320\/practice.jpg\" width=\"224\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">Walking it by herself<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This morning as she made her Second Holy Communion, I laughed to see her face contort with distaste as she took the cup.<br>\u201cIt tastes bad, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d Her brother asked.\u00a0\u00a0 <br>\u201cI never expected blood to taste good.\u201d She replied.<\/p>\n<p>She is delighted to get to go to Communion with us.\u00a0 I am ecstatic because it means she can now receive Anointing of the Sick.\u00a0 My heart grieved earlier this year that the Graces of this Sacrament were denied her because she had not yet made her First Communion.<\/p>\n<p>She may not need it today, but she will in the future.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a fact of Juvenile Arthritis; it comes back.\u00a0 The next time it flares up, she will have in her arsenal the Eucharist and the Sacrament of the Sick.\u00a0 We need all the firepower we can get, and yesterday she added some heavy artillery.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">If you\u2019re like me, you\u2019re wanting to see what that headpiece looks like up close.\u00a0 Here it is!\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it grand?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-j70GpYQ9FOA\/T7lALH_xzHI\/AAAAAAAABOU\/WfjaNt82wcM\/s1600\/the+bow.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-j70GpYQ9FOA\/T7lALH_xzHI\/AAAAAAAABOU\/WfjaNt82wcM\/s320\/the+bow.jpg\" width=\"191\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, our beloved #4 received Her Lord in the Eucharist for the first time.\u00a0 She was beautiful and resolute as she approached the altar.\u00a0 At last the day she had waited for had arrived.\u00a0 She walked up the aisle with only a small limp, so vastly improved from the awkward lurch of a month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Firepower<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yesterday morning, our beloved #4 received Her Lord in the Eucharist for the first time.&nbsp; 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