Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 To start off today, I\u2019d like to thank You for the emotional \u201cpurging\u201d You helped me with yesterday.\u00a0 Sometimes, the hidden feelings that quietly eat at our spirits are the hardest to control, and it feels absolutely wonderful to have laid that one down.\u00a0 Every negative I can shed brings me that much closer to You.<\/p>\n
As You know, for Christmas I got both my boys new Children\u2019s Bibles.\u00a0 These are lovely books Lord, which tell Your story and give Your Word to them in a way that they\u2019re excited to read each night.\u00a0 Most evenings I\u2019ve been reading with Aidan, but he\u2019s also taken to reading some of it on his own and has just been devouring the stories.\u00a0 We\u2019re almost completely through Genesis, and both my boys are amazed and filled with wonder at Your Power and Love for Your Children.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been thrilled to see them so enthralled with learning about You, and I pray it continues to interest and excite them.\u00a0 Jonathan has taken to reading our daily conversations as well, and it warms my heart that he wants to know You so much more.\u00a0 I so want to raise these boys to be God-Loving, compassionate and righteous men.<\/p>\n
\u201cStart children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.\u201d \u2013 Proverbs 22:6<\/strong><\/p>\n Heavenly Father, please help me continue to bring Your Loving Presence into my childrens\u2019 lives.\u00a0 Fill them with the Holy Spirit, and make Your Heavenly Light shine through them so all may see Your Influence.\u00a0 I pray that You grant me the wisdom, the strength and the resolve to help them be the men I know they can be.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 To start off today, I\u2019d like to thank You for the emotional \u201cpurging\u201d You helped me with yesterday.\u00a0 Sometimes, the hidden feelings that quietly eat at our spirits are the hardest to control, and it feels absolutely wonderful to have laid that one down.\u00a0 Every negative I can shed brings […]<\/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":[181,359,583,182,132,266,590,581,578,589,335,216,586,593,580,592,51,116,407,104,133,96,582,587,217,41,367,579,585,591,512,584,588,378,379,348],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-aidan","tag-bible","tag-books","tag-boys","tag-children","tag-christmas","tag-compassionate","tag-control","tag-emotional","tag-enthralled","tag-excited","tag-feelings","tag-genesis","tag-heavenly","tag-hidden","tag-holy-spirit","tag-influence","tag-jonathan","tag-learning","tag-light","tag-love","tag-loving","tag-negative","tag-power","tag-pray","tag-presence","tag-proverbs","tag-purging","tag-read","tag-righteous","tag-spirits","tag-story","tag-thrilled","tag-wonder","tag-wonderful","tag-word"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-7A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}