Dear Lord; Well Father, December is upon us and at least here in Delaware I think you left the water running up there.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 And although it\u2019s a dreary, wet day outside my heart is opening to rejoice at the Season of Celebration for the Holy Birth of Your Son.\u00a0 I started this morning by shifting my iPod playlist over to Holiday music to get myself \u201cin the spirit\u201d.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing like the joyous sounds of Judy Collins, Bing Crosby, Harry Connick Jr. and Amy Grant singing Your praise to get my spirits in the right place.\u00a0 As I noted in yesterday\u2019s email, music has a way of getting into my heart like not too many other things can, so I make sure to have appropriate uplifting songs playing for much of my day to keep me in the right frame of mind.\u00a0 Thank You for inspiring so many talented people and using their gifts as a conduit to our Souls.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s prayers Lord, are for all those struggling to find their inspirations during this Blessed Season.\u00a0 It\u2019s very easy to get mired down in the day-to-day troubles we all face, and to completely miss the Miracle that this time of year celebrates.\u00a0 Please open peoples\u2019 hearts and minds to receive the true depth and meaning of this Blessed Event, and to focus on Your Loving Gifts to us instead of dwelling on earthly issues.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; Well Father, December is upon us and at least here in Delaware I think you left the water running up there.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 And although it\u2019s a dreary, wet day outside my heart is opening to rejoice at the Season of Celebration for the Holy Birth of Your Son.\u00a0 I started this morning by […]<\/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":[256,275,266,276,273,111,268,271,269,267,96,274,257,249,264,265,117,95,272,270],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-blessed","tag-blessed-event","tag-christmas","tag-gifts","tag-hearts","tag-holiday","tag-holy-birth","tag-inspiring","tag-jesus","tag-joyous","tag-loving","tag-minds","tag-music","tag-prayers","tag-rejoyce","tag-season","tag-son","tag-spirit","tag-troubles","tag-uplifting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-6m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}