\u201cLet us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.\u00a0And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,\u00a0not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.\u201d \u2013 Hebrews 10:23-25 (ESV)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nYour path for our lives includes a complex (to us anyways) intertwining of souls.\u00a0 You bring us together for many reasons; to encourage us, to teach us, to comfort us, and to share our spiritual gifts with one another.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit draws us together, creating those vital allegiances that nourish our soul as we journey along the path to Your Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Heavenly Father,<\/p>\n
As we begin the week, I lift thanks and praise to You for all the wonderful relationships You\u2019ve brought into my life.\u00a0 Through these Blessed connections I\u2019ve seen countless signs of Your gracious love, and they continue to inspire me to reach out and share that love with others.<\/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! Well Father, once again we come to another Meditations Monday here at PhatherPhil.org.\u00a0 This past weekend saw days filled with Your abundant Blessings, and quiet evenings curled up under warm blankets watching movies with the kids.\u00a0 We managed to get our Christmas crafting projects off to a healthy jump-start, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1494,"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":[2018,181,851,207,1829,852,168,256,2024,419,1299,321,266,2019,219,1727,1919,27,829,43,915,1972,1725,1830,15,173,220,228,24,1510,1568,726,457,534,2022,444,89,471,593,916,592,464,475,271,2023,269,116,109,222,2020,190,96,2021,206,1325,506,385,509,81,1239,601,217,1282,137,841,291,69,315,1486,92,10,227,117,469,134,1834,631,476,114,226,1115,135,481,49,378,379,1219],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-abundant-blessings","tag-aidan","tag-beautiful","tag-birthday","tag-birthday-party","tag-blanket","tag-bless","tag-blessed","tag-blessed-connections","tag-blessing","tag-book-of-hebrews","tag-christ","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-crafts","tag-church","tag-church-family","tag-church-service","tag-comfort","tag-company","tag-courage","tag-dear-lord","tag-esv","tag-ewells-st-paul-united-methodist-church","tag-extended-family","tag-faith","tag-father","tag-fellowship","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-gods-gracious-love","tag-gods-love","tag-good-works","tag-grow","tag-growing","tag-growing-in-gods-presence","tag-happy","tag-health","tag-healthy","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-holy-spirit","tag-hope","tag-inspire","tag-inspiring","tag-intertwining-souls","tag-jesus","tag-jonathan","tag-journey","tag-joy","tag-jump-start","tag-kids","tag-loving","tag-loving-family","tag-meditation","tag-meditations-monday","tag-morning","tag-movie","tag-nourish","tag-path","tag-port-mahon","tag-praise","tag-pray","tag-project","tag-projects","tag-promised","tag-question","tag-quiet","tag-rant","tag-reach","tag-relationship","tag-relationships","tag-shannon","tag-son","tag-sons","tag-soul","tag-spiritual-gifts","tag-sunday","tag-teach","tag-thank-you","tag-thanks","tag-thanks-and-praise","tag-weather","tag-week","tag-weekend","tag-wonder","tag-wonderful","tag-woodland-beach"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Holding-Hands-BW-1-Cropped.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-o7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","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=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}