{"id":99335,"date":"2021-02-09T12:20:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99335"},"modified":"2021-02-10T04:58:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T09:58:14","slug":"c-of-e-the-paramedic-who-finds-hope-in-prayer-on-the-covid-19-frontline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99335","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) The paramedic who finds \u2018hope\u2019 in prayer on the Covid-19 frontline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Linton is a Paramedic Team Leader for South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. Despite having Covid-19 and battling increasing work pressures, Simon\u2019s faith has actually been strengthened.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cPrayer is such an effective and powerful blessing which I am so blessed to have. I find prayer to really focus my mind during such difficult times which gives me hope that my future is safe in God&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has given me such an increased level of peace. I would say that Covid has deepened my faith as it has challenged me to read His Word more and I have had a greater understanding about his promises for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unwell for three weeks in March-April last year, Simon has seen increasing numbers of patients needing help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/news-and-media\/stories-and-features\/paramedic-who-finds-hope-prayer-covid-19-frontline\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/paramedic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#paramedic<\/a> who finds \u2018hope\u2019 in prayer on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Covid19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Covid19<\/a> frontline <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LzJ1Y00aDO\">https:\/\/t.co\/LzJ1Y00aDO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/prayer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#prayer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/religion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#religion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pandemic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pandemic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/compassion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#compassion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/1359107417049620486?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Linton is a Paramedic Team Leader for South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. Despite having Covid-19 and battling increasing work pressures, Simon\u2019s faith has actually been strengthened. He said: \u201cPrayer is such an effective and powerful blessing which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99335\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,104,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99358,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99335\/revisions\/99358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}