{"id":1016,"date":"2011-05-26T21:17:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T02:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2011-05-27T10:31:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:31:17","slug":"thankful-thursday-a-roller-coaster-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: A Roller Coaster Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Lord; Happy Thankful Thursday Father!<\/p>\n

And once again Lord, we come to one of my favorite conversations of the week; the Thankful Thursday list!\u00a0 As you know Father, this has been an exceptionally eventful week for us; filled with both cause for joyful celebration, as well as news of a disheartening loss.\u00a0 However through it all Father, I\u2019ve felt Your Divine Presence in abundance and have much to be thankful for.<\/p>\n

Therefore Lord, my list for the week is:<\/p>\n

31. Jonathan being off chemotherapy for 10 years as of this month.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

32. Warmer, sunny days.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

33. Air conditioning for those warmer, sunny days.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

34. New friends.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

35. Cheesesteak pizza.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

36. A glass of Pinot Noir to go with that pizza. \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

37. Hidden Treasure<\/a> in the basement.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

38. Being perfectly loved by my Creator, even as imperfect as I am.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

39. Inspiring Contemporary Christian music that uplifts me throughout the day.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

40. My blood pressure medication.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

41. Gas prices coming back down a little bit.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

42. A job commitment for Shannon at the boys\u2019 school next year.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

43. Good friends coming to visit over the Memorial Day Weekend.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

44. New episodes of Doctor Who on BBC America.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

45. Daily guidance from my Heavenly Father.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, as always, I thank You for continuing to be ever-faithful, and filling our lives with such a multitude of Blessings each day.\u00a0 I pray for Your continued guidance in making choices that best glorify Your Will, and for Your aid in sharing Your Light with those around me.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Lord; Happy Thankful Thursday Father! And once again Lord, we come to one of my favorite conversations of the week; the Thankful Thursday list!\u00a0 As you know Father, this has been an exceptionally eventful week for us; filled with both cause for joyful celebration, as well as news of a disheartening loss.\u00a0 However through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[426,127,168,419,12,182,296,925,82,44,321,772,596,657,556,795,807,915,282,1167,1238,638,15,173,442,228,24,21,444,140,593,916,580,1266,295,271,519,116,222,104,307,133,422,230,1271,1272,217,174,227,114,40,1034,481,49,504,1270],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-abundance","tag-america","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-blessings","tag-boys","tag-celebration","tag-chemotherapy","tag-choice","tag-choices","tag-christ","tag-christian","tag-christian-music","tag-contemporary-christian-music","tag-conversation","tag-conversations","tag-days","tag-dear-lord","tag-divine","tag-divine-presence","tag-doctor-who","tag-episode","tag-faith","tag-father","tag-favorite","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-guidance","tag-happy","tag-heart","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-hidden","tag-hidden-treasure","tag-imperfect","tag-inspiring","tag-job","tag-jonathan","tag-joy","tag-light","tag-loss","tag-love","tag-loved","tag-mother","tag-pinot-noir","tag-pizza","tag-pray","tag-school","tag-shannon","tag-thank-you","tag-thankful","tag-thankful-thursday","tag-week","tag-weekend","tag-will","tag-wine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-go","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}