{"id":413,"date":"2010-12-09T09:22:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=413"},"modified":"2010-12-09T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T14:22:46","slug":"feeling-your-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Your Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Lord; First off, let me say Thank You for watching over Jonathan yesterday during his trip.\u00a0 He had a wonderful time, and seems to have learned quite a bit from the experience.\u00a0 Seeing that light in his eyes brings me more happiness than almost anything else in this world.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I want to thank You for all of the inspiration You provided me with yesterday while finalizing the wedding script.\u00a0 I have to say, I\u2019m very happy with the results and the Bride seems to be as well.\u00a0 Now I just pray that I can deliver Your Words with the reverence You deserve, and bring Your Loving Presence to those in attendance.<\/p>\n

Also in my thoughts today Lord, is my Wonderful Wife Shannon.\u00a0 As You know, she teaches a preschool class and is absolutely amazing at working with those children.\u00a0 Like any group of kids, she has some that are far more challenging than others and over the last couple of weeks she\u2019s been struggling with one in particular.\u00a0 Father, she takes her care of these children so personally that when she has difficulties reaching even one it hurts her heart very deeply.\u00a0 Please comfort her spirit Lord, and fill her with the understanding that every act of love she performs for these little ones is never in vain.\u00a0 Take her in Your Embrace, and let her feel Your Presence so that she can continue to bring her love to these children.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

And today Lord, I\u2019m actually going to add a P.S. to our conversation.\u00a0 The other night on TV, they showed \u201cA Charlie Brown Christmas\u201d.\u00a0 I was thrilled to see a happy piece of my childhood still being aired, and my kids absolutely loved it.\u00a0 More importantly Father, it\u2019s one of the few Christmas specials that talks about the real meaning of Christmas and not the more generalized \u201cHoliday\u201d messages.\u00a0 One of my Facebook friends posted this link this morning, so I thought I\u2019d close by sharing it.<\/p>\n

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Your Loving Message comes to me in so many ways Lord.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Lord; First off, let me say Thank You for watching over Jonathan yesterday during his trip.\u00a0 He had a wonderful time, and seems to have learned quite a bit from the experience.\u00a0 Seeing that light in his eyes brings me more happiness than almost anything else in this world. Secondly, I want to thank […]<\/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":[350,347,351,354,132,266,27,90,79,111,13,116,345,133,96,355,353,349,41,344,343,227,95,352,329,300,346,157,348],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-amazing","tag-bride","tag-challenging","tag-charlie-brown","tag-children","tag-christmas","tag-comfort","tag-embrace","tag-happiness","tag-holiday","tag-inspiration","tag-jonathan","tag-learn","tag-love","tag-loving","tag-message","tag-personally","tag-preschool","tag-presence","tag-protect","tag-reverence","tag-shannon","tag-spirit","tag-struggling","tag-trip","tag-understanding","tag-wedding","tag-wife","tag-word"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-6F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}