Dear Lord; As I\u2019ve mentioned to You before, I think becoming a father was truly the starting point of my Spiritual Awakening, and the path to growing my relationship with You.\u00a0 In fact, this morning while searching for inspiration for our correspondence, I kept coming back to the relationship I have with my children. \u00a0That got me wondering, if being a father to my two boys was so powerful a force in my life, how must it feel to be the Father of all of us?\u00a0 I worry endlessly about my kids, revel in their successes, cringe at their pain and watch them grow with adoration and fascination.\u00a0 I can\u2019t even imagine experiencing that on the scale You have.\u00a0 Well, as one of Your Children, I just want to say Thank You for all you do Father; \u00a0Your unending Love, Your sacrifices, Your Grace and Your bountiful Blessings in all our lives each day.\u00a0 And Lord, I especially want to thank You for allowing me the Blessing of being a father myself.\u00a0 It has truly opened my eyes and my heart to You more than ever before.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; As I\u2019ve mentioned to You before, I think becoming a father was truly the starting point of my Spiritual Awakening, and the path to growing my relationship with You.\u00a0 In fact, this morning while searching for inspiration for our correspondence, I kept coming back to the relationship I have with my children. \u00a0That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[193,12,132,196,4,194,173,59,140,190,133,19,195,191,192],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-adoration","tag-blessings","tag-children","tag-eyes","tag-family","tag-fascination","tag-father","tag-grace","tag-heart","tag-kids","tag-love","tag-pain","tag-sacrifices","tag-successes","tag-worry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-5N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}