Dear Lord; Well Father, the New Year is certainly upon us.\u00a0 However, instead of talking about new beginnings today, I want to go over last weekend if I may.\u00a0 As we\u2019ve discussed at length, 2010 was in many ways an amazingly difficult year for myself and my family.\u00a0 Well, as of Friday morning I had yet one more potentially serious business nightmare crop up to finish off my year, and I\u2019m afraid I crumbled.\u00a0 It was the proverbial last straw on the camel\u2019s back, and I spent the bulk of my day sitting quietly in our bedroom, avoiding the world.\u00a0 I tried for quite some time to speak with You Lord, but I just couldn\u2019t seem to let go of the troubles in my heart and open up that line of communication.\u00a0 I felt lost, and beaten, and angry, and alone.<\/p>\n
I was of course none of those things, but at the time I couldn\u2019t see past my own turmoil to realize it.\u00a0 Once again, You intervened through others to bring me back.\u00a0 Shannon and I were to attend a New Years Eve party that night, and although I was holding onto my pain she convinced me to keep our plans all the same.\u00a0 It ended up being just what was needed to get me out of the self-induced shell I was hiding in.\u00a0 The evening was spent surrounded by a fun group of friends, and I was able to finally release the hold that fear had placed on my heart.<\/p>\n
The rest of the weekend continued on an upwards trend, and by Sunday afternoon I was back to my old self once again.\u00a0 I was able to start the week today with a positive direction, and a joyous heart knowing that as always, You were there to see me through, even when I wasn\u2019t paying attention.<\/p>\n
\u201cHave I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.\u201d \u2013 Joshua 1:9<\/strong><\/p>\n Thank You Father, for always being there to guide and help us even when our own frailties make us blind to Your Presence.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Well Father, the New Year is certainly upon us.\u00a0 However, instead of talking about new beginnings today, I want to go over last weekend if I may.\u00a0 As we\u2019ve discussed at length, 2010 was in many ways an amazingly difficult year for myself and my family.\u00a0 Well, as of Friday morning I had […]<\/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":[514,9,762,549,551,555,516,550,548,546,4,6,554,24,140,313,389,31,515,416,445,41,547,227,106,553,49],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-514","tag-alone","tag-anger","tag-avoid","tag-beaten","tag-blind","tag-business","tag-communication","tag-crumbled","tag-difficult","tag-family","tag-fear","tag-frailities","tag-friends","tag-heart","tag-joshua","tag-lost","tag-new-beginnings","tag-new-year","tag-party","tag-positive","tag-presence","tag-serious","tag-shannon","tag-turmoil","tag-upwards","tag-weekend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-7v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}