{"id":437,"date":"2010-12-21T12:23:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=437"},"modified":"2010-12-21T12:23:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T17:23:31","slug":"theres-a-new-kid-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a New Kid in Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord; Well Father, I want to start today by thanking You for Your Healing Light; Shannon and I are both feeling much better today.\u00a0 And more importantly Lord, I got Your point from our illness.\u00a0 Through all the stresses, difficulties and worries in our lives we are absolutely Loved and Blessed.\u00a0 What an amazing feeling!\u00a0 We had such an exceptional outpouring of love and concern that both of us could feel Your Presence in abundance, and we\u2019re very grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Today however, I\u2019ll admit to be feeling a little overwhelmed with my earthly realities.\u00a0 Between the demands at work and Christmas being only four short days away, Shannon and I are struggling to not allow our time and money constraints to overshadow the amazing Blessing this Season of Celebration brings to us all.\u00a0 As You know, one of the things I use to keep my spirit focused on what\u2019s truly important Lord, is music.\u00a0 Today, You kept bringing one specific Artist to my mind; Kathy Mattea.\u00a0 Her <a title=\"Kathy Mattea - Good News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Good_News_%28Kathy_Mattea_album%29\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGood News\u201d<\/a> Christmas Album has long been one of my favorites, and today this song just spoke to me :<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-4wTf7fOK9s?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thank You Father, for all the Miracles You bring us each day.\u00a0 Help us all lay our worries and burdens at Your Feet and go forward in Love to Celebrate the coming of Your Son, Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord; 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