Dear Lord; Happy Wednesday Father!<\/p>\n
So many Blessings Lord\u2026 So many\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n And yet,<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019m unsettled\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n And tired\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n And anxious.<\/em><\/p>\n In times such as these Father,<\/em><\/p>\n When my brokenness overwhelms me,<\/em><\/p>\n When Your voice seems distant,<\/em><\/p>\n And Your presence evades me,<\/em><\/p>\n I need You all the more.<\/em><\/p>\n And yet,<\/em><\/p>\n Through the self-imposed haze between us,<\/em><\/p>\n Shines a light;<\/em><\/p>\n The light of a star,<\/em><\/p>\n Guiding me,<\/em><\/p>\n Leading my heart,<\/em><\/p>\n To the foot of a manger.<\/em><\/p>\n And there,<\/em><\/p>\n Wrapped in the Stillness of Your Holy Gift,<\/em><\/p>\n I find Your peace,<\/em><\/p>\n And I can rest,<\/em><\/p>\n Safe in Your embrace.<\/em><\/p>\n Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Happy Wednesday Father! So many Blessings Lord\u2026 So many\u2026 And yet, I\u2019m unsettled\u2026 And tired\u2026 And anxious. In times such as these Father, When my brokenness overwhelms me, When Your voice seems distant, And Your presence evades me, I need You all the more. And yet, Through the self-imposed haze between us, Shines […]<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1808,"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":[2102,2391,168,419,1016,266,915,173,1736,2395,1507,1332,847,140,1327,787,104,2390,2392,2393,845,727,113,2394,2389,66,663],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-anxious","tag-baby-jesus","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-brokenness","tag-christmas","tag-dear-lord","tag-father","tag-gods-embrace","tag-gods-peace","tag-gods-presence","tag-gods-voice","tag-guiding","tag-heart","tag-holy-gift","tag-leading","tag-light","tag-light-of-a-star","tag-manger","tag-nativity","tag-need","tag-rest","tag-safe","tag-self-imposed-haze","tag-so-many-blessings","tag-stillness","tag-wednesday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Christmas-Star-1-Cropped.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-t9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","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=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1811,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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