{"id":1148,"date":"2011-07-07T14:46:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2011-07-07T14:46:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T18:46:47","slug":"thankful-thursday-days-of-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Days of Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

And once again Father, we come to the Thankful Thursday<\/span><\/em> edition at phatherphil.org!\u00a0 It\u2019s been an eventful seven days to be sure, and I\u2019ve felt Your Blessings overflowing around me throughout.\u00a0 I usually have to take some time to go back over the past week carefully in my head to pick out the little Blessings I\u2019ve missed, but today for some reason they sprang to mind quickly and easily.\u00a0 It\u2019s wonderful to have days of such clarity, and to feel like I\u2019m walking the right path with You.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Anyways Lord, on to the list!\u00a0 This week, some things I\u2019ve been thankful for are:<\/p>\n

121. Living in a country that allows me to worship You without fear of persecution.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

122. Our upcoming family vacation to Chestnut Grove Resort<\/a> in the Pocono Mountains.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

123. Shannon getting to play her viola with the praise team at church.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

124. The patient and professional doctors and nurses at A.I. Dupont Hospital for Children<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

125. Shannon finally connecting with a helpful agent at the State of Delaware.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

126. Having a GPS to help me navigate when we travel.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

127. Big sales on items just when I need them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

128. Empathetic gestures between my two boys.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

129. Being able to spend a long holiday weekend in the company of good friends.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

130. A wonderful new Christian book to read while on vacation.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

131. Friends who offer to watch our dogs and the house while we\u2019re away.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

132. Our Most Important Freedom<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

133. The power of prayer<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

134. Spam filters.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

135. The medical technology that allows Jonathan to live a normal life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, I thank You for all the Blessings you grace us with, both those that are seen and those that may pass unnoticed.\u00a0 You are indeed a God of compassion and of wonders, and I pray that my choices, decisions and actions will properly Glorify Your gifts to us all.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Lord; Happy Thankful Thursday Father! And once again Father, we come to the Thankful Thursday edition at phatherphil.org!\u00a0 It\u2019s been an eventful seven days to be sure, and I\u2019ve felt Your Blessings overflowing around me throughout.\u00a0 I usually have to take some time to go back over the past week carefully in my head […]<\/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":[124,724,1472,168,419,12,182,107,530,1375,286,132,82,44,321,772,1473,219,37,128,1467,915,154,635,1240,561,1471,4,173,6,848,228,24,208,276,1338,1477,59,444,593,916,804,1295,180,111,120,976,116,901,78,1478,880,641,1476,845,1469,531,587,1474,601,1479,217,158,766,748,585,227,117,1475,1466,1470,178,949,114,40,1034,485,108,1468,481,49,504,378,379,604],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-a-i-dupont","tag-actions","tag-big-sales","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-blessings","tag-boys","tag-care","tag-chestnut-grove","tag-chestnut-grove-resort","tag-child","tag-children","tag-choice","tag-choices","tag-christ","tag-christian","tag-christian-book","tag-church","tag-compassion","tag-country","tag-days-of-clarity","tag-dear-lord","tag-decisions","tag-doctor","tag-dog","tag-dogs","tag-empathetic-gestures","tag-family","tag-father","tag-fear","tag-filter","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-gift","tag-gifts","tag-glorify-god","tag-god-of-compassion","tag-grace","tag-happy","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-help","tag-help-me","tag-helpful","tag-holiday","tag-hospital","tag-house","tag-jonathan","tag-law","tag-life","tag-little-blessings","tag-long","tag-medical","tag-medical-technology","tag-need","tag-pocono-mountains","tag-poconos","tag-power","tag-power-of-prayer","tag-praise","tag-praise-team","tag-pray","tag-profession","tag-professional","tag-quickly","tag-read","tag-shannon","tag-son","tag-spam-filters","tag-sprang-to-mind","tag-state-of-delaware","tag-sweet","tag-sweet-blessings","tag-thank-you","tag-thankful","tag-thankful-thursday","tag-travel","tag-vacation","tag-walking-the-right-path","tag-week","tag-weekend","tag-will","tag-wonder","tag-wonderful","tag-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","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=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}