Dear Lord; Eight years ago today, You Blessed me with my youngest son Aidan.\u00a0 He\u2019s a remarkable child Lord, and although he\u2019s extremely good at driving me crazy I love him to no end, and am VERY proud of him.\u00a0 Thank You for the amazing Gift that he is, and for continuing to Bless our lives by having him in them.<\/p>\n
As I sit contemplating the last eight years, it very much comes back to the email I sent you a couple of days ago.\u00a0 Becoming a father has by far changed my life and directed my path more than any other single factor.\u00a0 I imagine, in a limited way my love, cares, fears and wishes for my two boys must be similar to the way You feel for all Your Children.\u00a0 I realize Your Perfect Love is infinitely more robust, but when I think about how deeply my two children affect me, my mind reels at the thought of being a Father to all the people of the world.\u00a0 You are indeed a Wonderous God, and an amazing Father to us all.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; Eight years ago today, You Blessed me with my youngest son Aidan.\u00a0 He\u2019s a remarkable child Lord, and although he\u2019s extremely good at driving me crazy I love him to no end, and am VERY proud of him.\u00a0 Thank You for the amazing Gift that he is, and for continuing to Bless our […]<\/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":[181,207,168,210,132,153,173,211,208,133,81,209,117,212,213],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-aidan","tag-birthday","tag-bless","tag-cares","tag-children","tag-contemplation","tag-father","tag-fears","tag-gift","tag-love","tag-path","tag-perfect-love","tag-son","tag-wishes","tag-wonderous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-5S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}