{"id":1662,"date":"2011-11-24T12:10:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2011-11-24T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:10:52","slug":"thankful-thursday-special-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: “Special Edition”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

And today Father, we come to the original Thankful Thursday<\/span><\/em>\u2026 Thanksgiving!\u00a0 On this day each year, here in the United States we take time to put aside the normal activities and concerns of daily life and focus our attentions on Your abundant Blessings.<\/p>\n

As we\u2019ve discussed many times Lord, when I begin counting my Blessings my wife Shannon and my two boys Jonathan and Aidan immediately spring to mind.\u00a0 They\u2019re truly one of Your greatest gifts in my life Father, and I can\u2019t begin to thank You enough for my life with them.<\/p>\n

As precious as they are to me Father, it seems fitting that on this day where our focus rests in gratitude, that I share our conversation with them as well.\u00a0 Therefore, for this Thankful Thursday<\/span><\/em> \u201cSpecial Edition\u201d<\/em>, I present You with some things that my cherished family members are grateful for:<\/p>\n

Jonathan (Age 11)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

– Having the choice to follow the Lord.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

– Having friends and family over for Thanksgiving.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

– Having parents that are still together.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

– Having the opportunity to get an education.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

– That all my sins are forgiven.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aidan (Age 9)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

– For my family.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– For our home.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– For good food to eat.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– That I have people that love me.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– For the fun I have building Legos.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Shannon (Older than 11 :-))<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

– The love of a grace-filled man.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– Empathetic children who give their birthday money to help fill a church food pantry.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– Recipes from the past that shine like new.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– Music to share in ALL aspects of my life.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

– Craft links on Pinterest \ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Heavenly Father,<\/p>\n

As we focus on Your many gifts in our lives Lord, Your love for us is so apparent.\u00a0 Open our eyes and our hearts Father, that we better recognize Your Blessings each day, and realize that Thanksgiving isn\u2019t only once a year, but every day that we dwell in Your tender mercies.<\/p>\n

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

Amen.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Lord; Happy Thankful Thursday Father! And today Father, we come to the original Thankful Thursday\u2026 Thanksgiving!\u00a0 On this day each year, here in the United States we take time to put aside the normal activities and concerns of daily life and focus our attentions on Your abundant Blessings. As we\u2019ve discussed many times Lord, […]<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1663,"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":[2018,502,181,99,207,168,419,182,2193,286,132,82,219,425,556,2191,1280,915,308,183,196,4,173,42,844,160,656,228,24,110,276,769,2190,59,427,2178,444,140,273,593,916,159,269,116,78,133,141,431,257,81,1935,217,683,699,727,2073,227,373,2192,114,40,1034,226,225,430,157],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-abundant-blessings","tag-activities","tag-aidan","tag-attention","tag-birthday","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-boys","tag-cherished-family-members","tag-child","tag-children","tag-choice","tag-church","tag-concern","tag-conversation","tag-counting","tag-counting-my-blessings","tag-dear-lord","tag-dwell","tag-education","tag-eyes","tag-family","tag-father","tag-focus","tag-follow","tag-food","tag-forgive","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-fun","tag-gifts","tag-giving","tag-gods-abundant-blessings","tag-grace","tag-grateful","tag-gratitude","tag-happy","tag-heart","tag-hearts","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-home","tag-jesus","tag-jonathan","tag-life","tag-love","tag-mind","tag-money","tag-music","tag-path","tag-pinterest","tag-pray","tag-realize","tag-recognize","tag-rest","tag-season-of-thanksgiving","tag-shannon","tag-special","tag-special-edition","tag-thank-you","tag-thankful","tag-thankful-thursday","tag-thanks","tag-thanksgiving","tag-time","tag-wife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Thanksgiving-Mums-1-Cropped.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-qO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","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=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}