{"id":1052,"date":"2011-06-07T17:29:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-06-07T17:29:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T21:29:55","slug":"go-rest-in-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Go Rest in the Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It\u2019s funny Father, but I never thought of Your Word as blood pressure medication before today.<\/p>\n

Following a significant power outage\/surge event in Dover late yesterday afternoon, we were greeted at the office this morning by a flurry of \u201chelp me\u201d<\/em> calls from a number of our local customers.\u00a0 Now, in and of itself, it wasn\u2019t an overwhelming volume of crises but I noticed as the morning wore on that I was becoming increasingly irritable and was feeling my heart pounding in my chest\u2026 not a good sign.\u00a0 I tried some slow breathing exercises, and to focus on one task at a time but couldn\u2019t seem to calm down and get a grip on the day.\u00a0 As my chest tightened further and my head began to throb, You placed a distinct and firm command on my heart:<\/p>\n

Go rest in the Word.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be honest Lord, my first thought was not immediate obedience.\u00a0 After all, it was the middle of a workday and I had things that I needed to get accomplished.\u00a0 Sensing Your insistence however, I told my admin that I\u2019d be \u201coff the grid\u201d<\/em> for a while, closed the door to my office and fired up YouVersion<\/a> on my Nook Color<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cBe still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.\u201d \u2013 Psalm 46:10 (NIV)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In that stillness, in Your Presence, I found my calm Father.\u00a0 The pounding in my head abated, my chest relaxed and I felt Your Peace come to me.<\/p>\n

Contemplating the events of the morning, I realized that this very much falls into line with the message about \u201cSpiritual Decompression\u201d<\/em><\/a> You gave me last week.\u00a0 Finding refuge and inspiration in Scripture is one way I can become closer to You, and in doing so gain the balance that my spirit needs to navigate the Journey You\u2019ve laid out for me.<\/p>\n

I see the path Lord, and I thank You for being so faithful in guiding me along it\u2019s twists and turns.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Lord; Happy Tuesday Father! It\u2019s funny Father, but I never thought of Your Word as blood pressure medication before today. Following a significant power outage\/surge event in Dover late yesterday afternoon, we were greeted at the office this morning by a flurry of \u201chelp me\u201d calls from a number of our local customers.\u00a0 Now, […]<\/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":[505,28,359,1296,1297,451,650,437,915,15,173,619,42,844,966,782,847,444,731,140,804,1295,121,13,109,880,664,355,506,845,1294,1293,648,448,81,25,587,41,253,585,683,893,727,796,958,95,1278,66,114,430,1107,481,504,348,138,1292],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-afternoon","tag-balance","tag-bible","tag-blood-pressure-medication","tag-breathing-exercises","tag-calm","tag-customer","tag-customers","tag-dear-lord","tag-faith","tag-father","tag-feeling","tag-focus","tag-follow","tag-god","tag-grip","tag-guiding","tag-happy","tag-head","tag-heart","tag-help","tag-help-me","tag-illness","tag-inspiration","tag-journey","tag-long","tag-mess","tag-message","tag-morning","tag-need","tag-nook-color","tag-off-the-grid","tag-office","tag-overwhelming","tag-path","tag-peace","tag-power","tag-presence","tag-psalm","tag-read","tag-realize","tag-relaxed","tag-rest","tag-significant","tag-slow-breathing","tag-spirit","tag-spiritual-decompression","tag-stillness","tag-thank-you","tag-time","tag-twists-and-turns","tag-week","tag-will","tag-word","tag-work","tag-youversion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-gY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","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=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}