Dear Lord; Good morning Father\u2026 And a frozen one it is!\u00a0 The weather here has once again shifted and covered the Delaware landscape with Winter\u2019s bounty.\u00a0 This morning though, it\u2019s not snow that layers the ground, but a shiny frozen sheet of ice and sleet.\u00a0 This of course, makes traveling dangerous Lord, so please watch over those who are going out into this weather and keep them safe from harm.<\/p>\n
As I was chiseling the ice from my \u201ctruck-sicle\u201d this morning, waiting for the heater to add it\u2019s inner glow to the effort it dawned on me that this was an interesting analogy to how You come into our lives (Ok, so this may be an odd tangent, but bear with me\u2026)<\/em>.\u00a0 We\u2019re like the truck shrouded in ice; spiritually cold and covered in misunderstanding, pain and sin.\u00a0 Little by little You scrape at our frozen shell, slowly revealing Your Light and Warmth to us until our inner heat kicks in and bridges that gap.<\/p>\n Ok.\u00a0 I said it was an odd tangent, but I think a valid one all the same.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your Diligence and constant Presence in my life.\u00a0 Please keep \u201cchipping away\u201d at my earthly shell, so that I may see You with more perfect clarity.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Good morning Father\u2026 And a frozen one it is!\u00a0 The weather here has once again shifted and covered the Delaware landscape with Winter\u2019s bounty.\u00a0 This morning though, it\u2019s not snow that layers the ground, but a shiny frozen sheet of ice and sleet.\u00a0 This of course, makes traveling dangerous Lord, so please watch […]<\/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":[404,45,856,915,375,919,487,173,593,916,920,918,506,19,776,41,113,850,482,95,917,114,485,697,300,863,135],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-analogy","tag-clarity","tag-dangerous","tag-dear-lord","tag-delaware","tag-diligence","tag-earth","tag-father","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-landscape","tag-misunderstanding","tag-morning","tag-pain","tag-plea","tag-presence","tag-safe","tag-sleet","tag-snow","tag-spirit","tag-tangent","tag-thank-you","tag-travel","tag-understand","tag-understanding","tag-warmth","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-8D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}