Dear Lord; First off Father, I want to follow up on our conversation yesterday.\u00a0 Last evening, I went to the local mall to pick up a couple of odds-and-ends.\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised to see a significantly better perspective from the shoppers and vendors.\u00a0 I got smiles, Lord\u2026 Lots of them.\u00a0 And when I wished people there a Merry and Blessed Christmas, I got happy faces and well-wishes in return.\u00a0 Thank You for allowing me to witness those signs of Your Joy.\u00a0 It helped my spirits immensely.<\/p>\n
Today Lord, my heart is already yearning towards the next couple of days.\u00a0 Work still holds many stresses for me, money is still extremely short and Shannon and I are still recovering from the bug that hit us last weekend, but the Light of the Blessed Event to come is overwhelming all of that.\u00a0 I\u2019m very much looking forward to spending quite a bit of \u201cquality time\u201d with You over the next couple of days, and helping spread the Love and Hope the Birth of Your Son brought to us all.\u00a0 Please help me be an effective emissary of Your Word, and to bring Christ\u2019s Message to as many others as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor to us a child is born, to us a son is given,\u00a0and the government will be on his shoulders.\u00a0 And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.\u201d Isaiah 9:6<\/strong><\/p>\n Amen.\u00a0 ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; First off Father, I want to follow up on our conversation yesterday.\u00a0 Last evening, I went to the local mall to pick up a couple of odds-and-ends.\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised to see a significantly better perspective from the shoppers and vendors.\u00a0 I got smiles, Lord\u2026 Lots of them.\u00a0 And when I wished […]<\/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":[465,256,321,266,444,89,140,464,121,466,269,222,133,355,431,448,55,463,461,73,423,462,212,348],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-birth","tag-blessed","tag-christ","tag-christmas","tag-happy","tag-health","tag-heart","tag-hope","tag-illness","tag-isaiah","tag-jesus","tag-joy","tag-love","tag-message","tag-money","tag-overwhelming","tag-perspective","tag-quality-time","tag-shopping","tag-smile","tag-stresses","tag-surprised","tag-wishes","tag-word"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-78","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}