{"id":1036,"date":"2011-06-02T17:20:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2011-06-02T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T01:31:27","slug":"thankful-thursday-realigning-my-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1036","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Realigning My Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

As I mentioned yesterday Father, I\u2019ve felt a bit disconnected the past couple days so I think today\u2019s \u201cCounting My Blessings\u201d<\/em> post is just what the doctor ordered to realign my thoughts with all the Blessings You surround me with each day.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen a number of other \u201cBloggy Friends in Christ\u201d<\/em> having similar issues to those I expressed in yesterday\u2019s post, so today I also want to pray for Your Comfort and Peace to be with them as well.<\/p>\n

And on to the list!\u00a0 Continuing from last week\u2026<\/p>\n

46. An administrative assistant who makes sure I eat, even when I\u2019m too hectic to think about it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

47. The encouraging and thoughtful comments that are left on phatherphil.org each day.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

48. Spiritual Decompression<\/a> time.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

49. A Heavenly Father that\u2019s never too busy to talk with me.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

50. Having a local butcher who has wonderful, fresh meats at great prices.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

51. A lull in the hot, sticky weather today (low 80s and a nice breeze).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

52. The 12-foot market umbrella on our deck which allows us to be outside more often.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

53. That the grass is growing slowly<\/span> this week.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

54. Godparents who take an active role in our children\u2019s lives.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

55. Friends willing to watch the boys now and again so Shannon and I can get out together.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

56. Green\u2019s Black Raspberry Blast Ice Cream<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

57. New sales that seem to show up just when I need them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

58. Afternoon coffee.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

59. \u201cDate Night\u201d with Shannon.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

60. Your Mercies in Disguise<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As always, I thank You Father for these and all the other Blessings You bestow on me each day.\u00a0 Even at my lowest points, I can look up and always see Your Light above me, welcoming me back to You.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Lord; Happy Thankful Thursday Father! As I mentioned yesterday Father, I\u2019ve felt a bit disconnected the past couple days so I think today\u2019s \u201cCounting My Blessings\u201d post is just what the doctor ordered to realign my thoughts with all the Blessings You surround me with each day.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen a number of other \u201cBloggy […]<\/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":[505,168,419,358,182,412,286,132,321,27,91,387,1280,625,807,915,1281,635,173,228,24,966,415,457,534,444,593,916,806,879,104,1170,845,714,25,217,613,227,95,1278,114,40,1034,730,430,135,481,504,378,379],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-afternoon","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-blog","tag-boys","tag-busy","tag-child","tag-children","tag-christ","tag-comfort","tag-connected","tag-count-your-blessings","tag-counting-my-blessings","tag-date-night","tag-days","tag-dear-lord","tag-decompression-time","tag-doctor","tag-father","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-god","tag-godparents","tag-grow","tag-growing","tag-happy","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-hectic","tag-just","tag-light","tag-mark","tag-need","tag-order","tag-peace","tag-pray","tag-real","tag-shannon","tag-spirit","tag-spiritual-decompression","tag-thank-you","tag-thankful","tag-thankful-thursday","tag-thoughts","tag-time","tag-weather","tag-week","tag-will","tag-wonder","tag-wonderful"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-gI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","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=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}