![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Jonathan-and-Aidan-on-Train-Tracks-1-Scaled.jpg\" "\\"Jonathan")
<\/a>I love this shot Lord, cheesy smiles and all.<\/p>\nThe rest of the day was spent in catching up on housework that had piled up since the BBQ the previous weekend; laundry, dishes, cleaning, etc.\u00a0 It was a wonderfully satisfying and productive Sunday Father, and one I won\u2019t soon forget.<\/p>\n
Did I remember to say thank You?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Heavenly Father, I thank You for all the Blessings You continue to bestow on us all.\u00a0 In Your grace we are redeemed and made whole, and I praise You for that most wondrous of gifts we can never hope to repay.\u00a0 Please guide us to decisions and actions that best glorify Your Will, and help us grow in Your Kingdom each day.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n
~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; Happy Monday Father! Well Father, it certainly was an eventful weekend once again in the Malmstrom home.\u00a0 It seemed we were all running constantly, but in the end it was a wonderful time spent with those I love, and I have much to be thankful for. Friday night, we began the evening by […]<\/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":[724,181,851,168,419,12,182,219,1194,1000,1288,915,154,635,1238,638,1291,196,4,173,871,844,160,843,628,228,24,208,276,966,415,59,457,686,444,731,140,593,916,806,804,159,464,976,1055,519,116,190,920,787,345,407,904,682,760,133,1170,664,355,304,506,230,257,670,846,495,793,416,1290,16,813,776,1239,587,572,601,41,1283,62,46,613,683,609,727,174,1221,227,461,187,73,95,986,384,1289,631,114,40,430,1265,329,339,481,49,791,504,378,379,371,138,604],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-actions","tag-aidan","tag-beautiful","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-blessings","tag-boys","tag-church","tag-clean","tag-concert","tag-contemporary-worship-service","tag-dear-lord","tag-decisions","tag-doctor","tag-doctor-who","tag-episode","tag-ewells-st-paul-umc","tag-eyes","tag-family","tag-father","tag-fire","tag-follow","tag-food","tag-forget","tag-friday","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-gift","tag-gifts","tag-god","tag-godparents","tag-grace","tag-grow","tag-guide","tag-happy","tag-head","tag-heart","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-hectic","tag-help","tag-home","tag-hope","tag-house","tag-housework","tag-job","tag-jonathan","tag-kids","tag-landscape","tag-leading","tag-learn","tag-learning","tag-lie","tag-listen","tag-listening","tag-love","tag-mark","tag-mess","tag-message","tag-monday","tag-morning","tag-mother","tag-music","tag-night","tag-noise","tag-open","tag-opened","tag-party","tag-photo-opportunities","tag-plan","tag-planning","tag-plea","tag-port-mahon","tag-power","tag-powerful","tag-praise","tag-presence","tag-presentation","tag-productive","tag-rain","tag-real","tag-realize","tag-remember","tag-rest","tag-school","tag-sea-glass","tag-shannon","tag-shopping","tag-sleep","tag-smile","tag-spirit","tag-state-forest","tag-stress","tag-stress-relief","tag-sunday","tag-thank-you","tag-thankful","tag-time","tag-treasure","tag-trip","tag-union","tag-week","tag-weekend","tag-whole","tag-will","tag-wonder","tag-wonderful","tag-wondrous","tag-work","tag-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-gU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","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=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shannon-and-Aidan-Walking-the-Shoreline-1-Scaled.jpg\" "\\"Shannon")
<\/a>After sleeping in a bit the next morning, we went and picked up the kids (who had a great night as well), and headed out to Port Mahon for some photo opportunities, and to scour the shoreline for bits of sea glass.\u00a0 We were able to time it this trip so that we got there as the tide was beginning to go out, leaving fresh bounty upon the sands.\u00a0 As you remake us each day Father, so do the tides remake the landscape revealing new wonders for us to find\u2026 Such a treasure hunt!<\/p>\n