Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 First off, I want to send out a quick prayer of support for my wife Shannon.\u00a0 She\u2019s been dealing with a very difficult professional situation as of late that\u2019s had her mind wrestling with her heart, and it\u2019s taken a toll on her.\u00a0 She\u2019s an amazing lady Lord, with a giving and caring spirit that seems to know no end, but in some cases those wonderful qualities can make necessary decisions much more difficult.\u00a0 Please send her Your Strength and Guidance to make the right decisions, and comfort her with the knowledge You\u2019re with her.\u00a0 Thank You.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I read a posting<\/a> on one of my favorite Christian Blog Sites (Mothers On Mission<\/a>) that brought to mind one of my favorite prayers.\u00a0 It\u2019s referred to as the Serenity Prayer and is attributed to a gentleman named Reinhold Niebuhr :<\/p>\n God grant me the serenity Living one day at a time; There\u2019s that word Accept<\/span> again!\u00a0 You know Father, since You placed that focus in my heart it seems to just pop up all around me.\u00a0 As You\u2019re well aware, the plea \u201cGod grant me the serenity to accept<\/span> the things I cannot change\u2026\u201d<\/strong> is something I pray for on a regular basis.\u00a0 The more my life seems to veer away from my control, the more I realize that much of what I struggle with never was mine to direct in the first place.<\/p>\n I\u2019m getting there Lord\u2026 Thank You for bearing with me.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 First off, I want to send out a quick prayer of support for my wife Shannon.\u00a0 She\u2019s been dealing with a very difficult professional situation as of late that\u2019s had her mind wrestling with her heart, and it\u2019s taken a toll on her.\u00a0 She\u2019s an amazing lady Lord, with a […]<\/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":[691,350,358,770,772,27,581,765,154,546,778,769,21,237,140,60,141,773,576,776,217,205,766,771,775,774,227,732,95,86,777,764,768,157,142,379,767],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-accept","tag-amazing","tag-blog","tag-caring","tag-christian","tag-comfort","tag-control","tag-dealing","tag-decisions","tag-difficult","tag-direct","tag-giving","tag-guidance","tag-hardships","tag-heart","tag-knowledge","tag-mind","tag-mothers-on-mission","tag-necessary","tag-plea","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-professional","tag-qualities","tag-serenity","tag-serenity-prayer","tag-shannon","tag-situation","tag-spirit","tag-strength","tag-struggle","tag-support","tag-toll","tag-wife","tag-wisdom","tag-wonderful","tag-wrestling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-81","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto accept the things I cannot change;
\ncourage to change the things I can;
\nand wisdom to know the difference. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nEnjoying one moment at a time;
\nAccepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
\nTaking, as He did, this sinful world
\nas it is, not as I would have it;
\nTrusting that He will make all things right
\nif I surrender to His Will;
\nThat I may be reasonably happy in this life
\nand supremely happy with Him
\nForever in the next.
\nAmen.<\/strong><\/p>\n