{"id":1260,"date":"2011-08-12T16:16:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2011-08-12T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T20:16:01","slug":"the-broken-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1260","title":{"rendered":"The Broken Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Whew\u2026 What a week it\u2019s been Lord.\u00a0 Between a hectic schedule at my office, my visit to Kay\u2019s Kamp<\/a> and a myriad of other \u201clife\u201d<\/em> events (getting new tires for the car, dealing with ill dogs, etc..), I\u2019m quite ready for the weekend to begin.\u00a0 That being said Father, even with the fast-paced nature of the past few days I\u2019ve had a very deep sense of Your Presence this week.\u00a0 That embodiment of peace in my Spirit has helped keep me focused, calm and joyful throughout, and for that I thank You.<\/p>\n

To close out the week Lord, I\u2019d like to share a song that\u2019s been in my head as of late.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually a song that\u2019s been out for quite some time, but when I heard this rendition it was like hearing it for the first time.\u00a0 The song is called \u201cBless the Broken Road\u201d<\/em>, and this recording is by the group Selah<\/a> :<\/p>\n

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Such a haunting performance, and a powerful message Father.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You for Your overwhelming presence in my life this past week.\u00a0 The more I open my heart to Your Voice, the more I realize that it\u2019s been there all along.\u00a0 I pray that with Your guidance we\u2019re all able to traverse life\u2019s broken roads, and find our way into Your Loving Arms.<\/p>\n

In Jesus\u2019 Name we pray,<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Lord; Happy Friday Father! Whew\u2026 What a week it\u2019s been Lord.\u00a0 Between a hectic schedule at my office, my visit to Kay\u2019s Kamp and a myriad of other \u201clife\u201d events (getting new tires for the car, dealing with ill dogs, etc..), I\u2019m quite ready for the weekend to begin.\u00a0 That being said Father, even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1259,"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":[168,1716,451,581,807,915,1240,561,1720,173,42,628,966,1722,1507,21,964,140,593,916,806,1719,269,222,374,190,78,96,355,648,123,1696,495,448,1721,572,217,683,1717,258,95,114,1718,1285,481,49,138],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-bless","tag-bless-the-broken-road","tag-calm","tag-control","tag-days","tag-dear-lord","tag-dog","tag-dogs","tag-embodiment-of-peace","tag-father","tag-focus","tag-friday","tag-god","tag-gods-loving-arms","tag-gods-presence","tag-guidance","tag-happy-friday","tag-heart","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-hectic","tag-hectic-schedule","tag-jesus","tag-joy","tag-kays-kamp","tag-kids","tag-life","tag-loving","tag-message","tag-office","tag-oncology","tag-oncology-camp","tag-open","tag-overwhelming","tag-overwhelming-presence","tag-powerful","tag-pray","tag-realize","tag-selah","tag-song","tag-spirit","tag-thank-you","tag-the-broken-road","tag-video","tag-week","tag-weekend","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Cracked-Road-1-Cropped.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-kk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","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=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}