Dear Lord; Happy Thursday Father!<\/p>\n
On my knees again Lord;<\/em><\/p>\n A prayer\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n A petition\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n A tear.<\/em><\/p>\n The stains within come pouring out,<\/em><\/p>\n And lie scattered at Your feet.<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019m broken Father…<\/em><\/p>\n So deeply broken.<\/em><\/p>\n And yet,<\/em><\/p>\n In the midst of my distress;<\/em><\/p>\n My pain\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n My anxieties\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n My fears\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n You remind me who I truly am;<\/em><\/p>\n Your Beloved Child.<\/em><\/p>\n You are my hope Lord;<\/em><\/p>\n My portion\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n My redemption\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n And my serenity in the chaos.<\/em><\/p>\n Yet even through that shield,<\/em><\/p>\n The world creeps in;<\/em><\/p>\n Those voices that tell me I fall far short\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n And don\u2019t deserve Your love.<\/em><\/p>\n My feelings of defeat\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n And sense of failure.<\/em><\/p>\n And yet,<\/em><\/p>\n You sent Your Son<\/em><\/p>\n To bear my sins,<\/em><\/p>\n And wash my life in Grace.<\/em><\/p>\n Siblings in Your Light,<\/em><\/p>\n Bonded through His blood.<\/em><\/p>\n So I give it up to You Lord,<\/em><\/p>\n All of it;<\/em><\/p>\n My trust,<\/em><\/p>\n My love,<\/em><\/p>\n My life,<\/em><\/p>\n All I was,<\/em><\/p>\n All I am,<\/em><\/p>\n All I will be,<\/em><\/p>\n I lift them all to You;<\/em><\/p>\n My Abba, Father.<\/em><\/p>\n Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Happy Thursday Father! On my knees again Lord; A prayer\u2026 A petition\u2026 A tear. The stains within come pouring out, And lie scattered at Your feet. I\u2019m broken Father… So deeply broken. And yet, In the midst of my distress; My pain\u2026 My anxieties\u2026 My fears\u2026 You remind me who I truly am; […]<\/p>\nPin It<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2074,"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":[2474,2794,2289,2793,2786,173,6,2791,966,2256,2787,1348,2782,19,2783,205,2788,2790,2789,2785,2784,2792],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-abba-father","tag-all-of-it","tag-anxiety","tag-bonded-through-christs-blood","tag-brokeness","tag-father","tag-fear","tag-feelings-of-defeat","tag-god","tag-gods-beloved","tag-gods-beloved-child","tag-lord","tag-on-my-knees","tag-pain","tag-petition","tag-prayer","tag-redemption","tag-sense-of-failure","tag-serenity-in-the-chaos","tag-stains","tag-tears","tag-washed-in-grace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Praying-Man-Silhouette-1-Cropped.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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