Dear Lord; First off Father, if I seem to ramble a little this morning, please forgive me.\u00a0 This nasty bug that Shannon and I came down with Sunday morning has hit us so hard and so fast that I\u2019m a bit disjointed at the moment.\u00a0 However Lord, although all my body wants right now is to go back to sleep my heart cried out to speak with You about something wonderful that happened to us yesterday.<\/p>\n
This was to be a busy weekend for us.\u00a0 Friday night, we had Jonathan\u2019s 11th<\/sup> birthday party at the house and a number of his friends stayed overnight with us.\u00a0 It was a bit on the crazy side with that many pre-teen boys running through the house, but everyone had a good time and we survived the onslaught.\u00a0 Saturday afternoon, our boys then went to stay overnight with Aidan\u2019s Godparents as Shannon and I had an \u201cAdults Only\u201d Christmas Party to attend, and it was to go quite late.\u00a0 The party was lots of fun, and we got home somewhere around 2:30am Sunday morning.\u00a0 Around 4:00am, both of us woke to fevers, chills, severe body aches and coughing.\u00a0 This lasted throughout the rest of the night, and well into the morning.<\/p>\n As I mentioned, this was intended to be a busy and productive weekend for us, including Sunday.\u00a0 With the hectic schedules we both have we were behind on all the typical household chores (laundry, dishes, groceries, etc.) as well as helping Jonathan with a school project due Monday and preparing a huge amount of homemade foods for Christmas gift baskets.\u00a0 Sunday was set aside to be the day to get all that accomplished, and with us both in horrible shape, it was looking very unlikely most of those things would get done.\u00a0 Being this was the last weekend before Christmas, this was a devastating blow to Shannon and I.<\/p>\n And then You intervened.<\/p>\n We have some friends that we\u2019ve become quite close with over the last couple of months.\u00a0 They\u2019re good people, but have been dealing with one nightmare after another for some time now.\u00a0 Their plate is more than full Lord, it\u2019s overflowing.\u00a0 And yet, when they found out that Shannon and I were down for the count, the next thing we knew the wife of the couple was at our door.<\/p>\n We helped as much as we could Father, but she ran the show.\u00a0 She took Shannon to the grocery store, helped do the necessary cooking, did a number of loads of laundry, and even found time to help Jonathan with his project; All the while insisting that we rest and try to recuperate.\u00a0 She was in every way Heaven Sent Lord, and I can\u2019t tell You how much it meant to both of us.<\/p>\n Therefore Father, my prayers today are very focused.\u00a0 Please bestow Your Love and Blessings on this wonderful lady and her family.\u00a0 Continue to fill her heart with the Love of Christ, and give her Peace knowing that she is indeed Loved and Appreciated in so many ways.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; First off Father, if I seem to ramble a little this morning, please forgive me.\u00a0 This nasty bug that Shannon and I came down with Sunday morning has hit us so hard and so fast that I\u2019m a bit disjointed at the moment.\u00a0 However Lord, although all my body wants right now is […]<\/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":[185,921,207,419,412,417,266,413,276,415,421,121,116,422,418,414,416,62,420,227,49,379],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-angels","tag-appreciate","tag-birthday","tag-blessing","tag-busy","tag-chores","tag-christmas","tag-disjointed","tag-gifts","tag-godparents","tag-heaven-sent","tag-illness","tag-jonathan","tag-loved","tag-nightmare","tag-onslaught","tag-party","tag-productive","tag-recuperate","tag-shannon","tag-weekend","tag-wonderful"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-70","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}