{"id":447,"date":"2010-12-27T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=447"},"modified":"2010-12-27T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T15:48:35","slug":"prayers-on-a-wintery-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Prayers on a Wintery Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 Well, we\u2019ve certainly started the week off with a blustery and snowy morning.\u00a0 Here in middle Delaware at least, the snow came down all day yesterday and into the evening, leaving a cleansing white coating on the ground.\u00a0 While it\u2019s a travel impediment, I\u2019ve always loved the way snow seems to purify everything and leaves the Earth feeling new, although I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be a lot less enthralled clearing the driveway later on today when the wind settles down\u00a0 :-).\u00a0 Either way, I pray that all those forced to venture out into these conditions will feel You by their side, and get to their destinations safely.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to thank You for a lovely Christmas weekend Father.\u00a0 From the wonderful Children\u2019s Christmas Eve Service at St. Paul\u2019s Lutheran Church<\/a> Friday night, to the time spent with my loving family on Christmas Day it was a joyous time and will inspire happy memories for quite some time to come.\u00a0 We are indeed Blessed, and I thank You from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n

Searching for inspiration on this wintery Monday morning Lord, I came across a prayer that just hit home with me and therefore I\u2019d like to finish our chat with it.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cThe Prayer of Saint Francis\u201d<\/a> and reads :<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
Where there is injury, pardon.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
Where there is doubt, faith.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
Where there is despair, hope.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
Where there is darkness, light.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
Where there is sadness, joy.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
O Divine Master,<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
to be understood, as to understand;<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
to be loved, as to love.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
For it is in giving that we receive.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n
Amen.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/address>\n

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

Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 Well, we\u2019ve certainly started the week off with a blustery and snowy morning.\u00a0 Here in middle Delaware at least, the snow came down all day yesterday and into the evening, leaving a cleansing white coating on the ground.\u00a0 While it\u2019s a travel impediment, I\u2019ve always loved the way snow seems […]<\/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":[256,483,266,467,219,48,484,488,375,487,4,140,13,267,490,304,205,491,486,331,482,489,485,481,49],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-blessed","tag-blustery","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-eve","tag-church","tag-cleansing","tag-coating","tag-conditions","tag-delaware","tag-earth","tag-family","tag-heart","tag-inspiration","tag-joyous","tag-memories","tag-monday","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-of-saint-francis","tag-purify","tag-safely","tag-snow","tag-st-pauls-lutheran-church","tag-travel","tag-week","tag-weekend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-7d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}