{"id":5753,"date":"2010-03-09T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/our-evening-prayers-for-imonk.html"},"modified":"2010-03-09T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:35:06","slug":"our-evening-prayers-for-imonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/03\/our-evening-prayers-for-imonk.html","title":{"rendered":"Our Evening Prayers &#8230; for iMonk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news today posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/michael-spencer-update-392010\"><b>at iMonk&#8217;s blog by Chaplain Mike<\/b><\/a>. Our prayers are with him, with Denise and family, and all those who know and love Michael Spencer.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\">\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 10px;padding-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px\"><em><strong>Chaplain Mike received this update from Denise Spencer today.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 10px;padding-left: 0px;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px\">It is with a heavy heart that I bring my latest update on Michael. We have learned that his cancer is too advanced and too aggressive to expect any sort of remission. Our oncologist estimates that with continued treatment Michael most likely has somewhere between six months and a year to live. This is not really a surprise to us, though it is certainly horrible news. From the very beginning, both of us have suspected that this would prove to be an extremely bad situation. I don&#8217;t know why; perhaps God was preparing us for the worst all along by giving us that intuition.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news today posted at iMonk&#8217;s blog by Chaplain Mike. Our prayers are with him, with Denise and family, and all those who know and love Michael Spencer. Chaplain Mike received this update from Denise Spencer today. It is with a heavy heart that I bring my latest update on Michael. 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