deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” \u2013 Ruth 1:16-17 (NIV)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSuch a powerful statement of commitment Lord, and unfortunately something we see far too little of in society today.\u00a0 Unwavering devotion to those we love, and to You Father, should be our firm goal and desire each and every day.\u00a0 If we all looked to replace our selfish, wayward thoughts with the yearning to care for and serve others, and to praise You with each waking breath, our world would be truly transformed.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s certainly something I\u2019ll be praying on this week Lord.<\/p>\n
Heavenly Father,<\/p>\n
As we go through the day Lord, please fill our hearts with the desire, devotion and drive to unselfishly and openly bring Your love to those around us.\u00a0 Grant us the resolve in our hearts Father, that we may committedly focus ourselves on those relationships that You Bless us with; our marriages, our families and our friendships, that we may glorify You thorough those connections.<\/p>\n
In Jesus\u2019 Name we pray,<\/p>\n
Amen.<\/p>\n
~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; Happy Meditations Monday Father! To begin our week\u2019s conversations Lord, I want to thank You for yet another lovely weekend filled to the brim with Your Blessings.\u00a0 Friday night we attended a spaghetti dinner at Ewell\u2019s St. Paul UMC to benefit the \u201cJesus Freaks\u201d youth group.\u00a0 The food and fellowship were wonderful, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1363,"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":[168,419,12,1847,182,412,1723,107,219,1000,556,795,915,236,602,1846,1725,4,173,220,42,844,628,228,24,966,444,140,273,593,916,1055,301,271,269,1845,133,1781,1567,23,206,1325,355,506,1525,416,887,587,572,601,217,92,10,629,799,227,461,130,117,1843,736,631,114,40,730,1848,378,379,138,819,685,1844],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-blessings","tag-book-of-ruth","tag-boys","tag-busy","tag-busy-weekend","tag-care","tag-church","tag-concert","tag-conversation","tag-conversations","tag-dear-lord","tag-death","tag-discussing","tag-dover-symphony","tag-ewells-st-paul-united-methodist-church","tag-family","tag-father","tag-fellowship","tag-focus","tag-follow","tag-friday","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-god","tag-happy","tag-heart","tag-hearts","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-housework","tag-husband","tag-inspiring","tag-jesus","tag-jesus-freaks","tag-love","tag-love-and-commitment","tag-lovely-weekend","tag-marriage","tag-meditation","tag-meditations-monday","tag-message","tag-morning","tag-niv","tag-party","tag-passage","tag-power","tag-powerful","tag-praise","tag-pray","tag-relationship","tag-relationships","tag-saturday","tag-severely","tag-shannon","tag-shopping","tag-society","tag-son","tag-stand-firm-magazine","tag-statement","tag-sunday","tag-thank-you","tag-thankful","tag-thoughts","tag-unwavering-devotion","tag-wonder","tag-wonderful","tag-work","tag-yearn","tag-yearning","tag-youth-group"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Love-Sculpture-1-Cropped.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-m0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","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=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}