{"id":478,"date":"2011-01-10T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2011-01-10T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:49:14","slug":"thanks-on-a-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Thanks on a Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Lord; Happy Monday Father!\u00a0 Well Lord, I just want to thank You for another lovely weekend.\u00a0 Date night with my lovely wife on Friday was a blast, Saturday we began to reclaim our home from the Christmas decorations, and Sunday was a wonderful lazy day watching the epic 1956 film \u201cThe Ten Commandments\u201d<\/a> with my family.\u00a0 The house is still in quite a bit of chaos, but all in all it was a wonderful, productive time and I thank You so much for it.<\/p>\n

I also want to take a minute to thank You for sending Your healing power to me over the last week.\u00a0 As You know I ended up at my doctor\u2019s office last Wednesday with serious stomach distress.\u00a0 I was in a fair amount of pain Lord, and while I still have some discomfort it\u2019s worlds better than it was.\u00a0 Thank You so much for Blessing me with an excellent Primary Care Physician, and for Your Comfort during this episode.\u00a0 It\u2019s woken me up to some necessary changes I need to make in my diet, stress level and sleep habits if I want to avoid potentially serious medical issues in the future.\u00a0 Please help me keep proper focus and have the strength to make the right choices going forward.<\/p>\n

And finally Lord, I\u2019ve been hearing quite a bit this month about the idea of having One Word to focus and pray on for the new year, instead of a series of resolutions which usually don\u2019t get followed through on.\u00a0 The more I\u2019ve thought about the idea, and seen some examples on other devotional blogs the more I like it.\u00a0 Therefore Father, today I\u2019m starting my prayers for You to help me choose the word that will guide me for the coming year. \u00a0I place my heart and mind in Your Hands Lord, and look forward to Your Counsel on my focus.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, please bring Your Loving Presence to all those in need.\u00a0 Help us be productive, focused and compassionate servants of Your Will, and guide us to where we can best be used for Your Grand Purpose.\u00a0 Give Your Comfort and Strength to those who are suffering, and help us all be extensions of Your Love on Earth.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Lord; Happy Monday Father!\u00a0 Well Lord, I just want to thank You for another lovely weekend.\u00a0 Date night with my lovely wife on Friday was a blast, Saturday we began to reclaim our home from the Christmas decorations, and Sunday was a wonderful lazy day watching the epic 1956 film \u201cThe Ten Commandments\u201d with […]<\/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":[643,639,634,44,266,27,590,644,625,640,636,635,487,638,645,42,628,5,140,159,632,133,96,641,141,304,385,515,642,19,637,217,41,62,281,630,537,629,547,409,187,86,384,20,631,623,49,504,379],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-blogs","tag-changes","tag-chaos","tag-choices","tag-christmas","tag-comfort","tag-compassionate","tag-counsel","tag-date-night","tag-diet","tag-discomfort","tag-doctor","tag-earth","tag-episode","tag-extensions","tag-focus","tag-friday","tag-healing","tag-heart","tag-home","tag-lazy","tag-love","tag-loving","tag-medical","tag-mind","tag-monday","tag-movie","tag-new-year","tag-one-word","tag-pain","tag-physician","tag-pray","tag-presence","tag-productive","tag-purpose","tag-reclaim","tag-resolutions","tag-saturday","tag-serious","tag-servants","tag-sleep","tag-strength","tag-stress","tag-suffering","tag-sunday","tag-ten-commandments","tag-weekend","tag-will","tag-wonderful"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-7I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}