{"id":7708,"date":"2020-11-21T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2020-11-21T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:20:26","slug":"what-to-say-when-you-dont-know-what-to-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/what-to-say-when-you-dont-know-what-to-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Speechless Encounters with the Elephant in the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday Stopover…<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

Speechless Encounters<\/span><\/h1>\n

with the Elephant in the Room<\/span><\/h2>\n

We\u00a0 have \u00a0times when <\/span><\/h2>\n

we just don’t know what to say.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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What do you say when you just don’t know what to say?<\/p>\n

Sue Vincent writes\u00a0 a thoughtful and \u00a0timely article on the silence that surrounds us when someone we know had entered into a life challenge of some sort. \u00a0Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo<\/a><\/p>\n

Quote from Su’s blog post today:<\/p>\n

As Mary Smith highlighted in\u00a0<\/span>her cancer diary<\/a>\u00a0this week, we are surrounded by uncertainties and unknowns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo by Heidi Murrin \u00a0for The Tribune Review, Taken at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, January \u00a02014<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What do you do when you just don’t know what to say to someone who is facing a life crises?
\nSue Vincent discusses this on her blog post today. As a person who experienced sudden and profound sight loss, I’ve experienced many of the same situations. My sight loss is always the elephant in the room and if you have other challenges, such as cancer or disabilities, you will also know this experience when no one seems to know what to say to you. <\/p>\n Continue reading →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trusting-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gbwn-20k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":95,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/when-you-come-to-a-roadblock-slow-down-and-stop\/","url_meta":{"origin":7708,"position":0},"title":"Lynda Recommends – Slow Down and Stop","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"November 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"One thing is certain. 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