{"id":566,"date":"2011-02-09T12:35:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=566"},"modified":"2011-02-09T21:34:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T02:34:13","slug":"the-kindness-of-my-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"The Kindness of My Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 Well Lord, my day started out with a lovely surprise gifted to me by a couple of my fellow Christian Bloggers.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve mentioned to You more than once, the wonderful people I\u2019ve met (virtually) while writing this blog have been an amazing blessing to me, and never fail to inspire and encourage me in my walk with You.\u00a0 Two of the sites I read each day; Mothers on Mission<\/a> (co-authored by Kelli and Heidi) and Beautiful in Him<\/a> (written by Allison) have passed along to me the \u201cStylish Blogger Award\u201d<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Thank you so much ladies\u2026 I\u2019m very flattered by this wonderful complement.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Along with this award comes a few requirements.\u00a0 First, I need to list seven things about myself that not everyone knows (although I realize You know me completely Father).\u00a0 Funny enough, while that seemed like a simple enough request, I found it no easy task.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what I came up with :<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> I\u2019ve married my wife Shannon three times;\u00a0 An informal ceremony with just a few family and friends, a formal affair five months later with a larger guest list and a reception, and this previous year on our 15th<\/sup> Anniversary I surprised her with a Vow Renewal Ceremony at the same church we were married in.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> For the original wedding ceremony, I was married in jeans and western boots.<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> In 2009 I wrote and published a book for Shannon as an Anniversary gift called \u201cMusings of a Devoted Husband\u201d<\/em><\/a> containing family photos and the daily romantic and devotional quotes I send to her phone and publish to MyCoffeeCupHasFeet.com<\/a> each day.<\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> I own and operate a computer networking and service company in Dover, Delaware called Diamond Computer Incorporated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> I have two wonderful children; Jonathan age 11 and Aidan age 8, both of whom I love dearly.<\/p>\n

6.<\/strong> I\u2019m a science fiction junkie, and love losing myself in episodes of shows like Dr. Who, Firefly, Babylon 5 and Fringe.<\/p>\n

7.<\/strong> I\u2019ve been a player of the online game World of Warcraft for over two years now.\u00a0 While I don\u2019t get the time to play that I used to, I still enjoy it when I have a few quiet moments.<\/p>\n

Wow\u2026 That took more than I thought it would.\u00a0 While it\u2019s probably a good exercise, I always find writing about myself to be a terribly difficult thing to do.<\/p>\n

The other responsibility of this award Father, is to bestow it on some other blogs that I enjoy.\u00a0 There are so many that I\u2019ve gained insight and inspiration from that this could be a long list, but some of my favorites are :<\/p>\n

Lisa at A Moment with God<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jenifer at ~Sweet Blessings~<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jean at Healthy Spirituality<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Elaine at Peace for the Journey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, I thank you for connecting me with these wonderful people in our Online Fellowship.\u00a0 I\u2019m humbled to have met them through this journey, and pray that You continue to bestow Your Blessings on all those who strive to bring Your Message of Love to others.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Lord; Good morning Father!\u00a0 Well Lord, my day started out with a lovely surprise gifted to me by a couple of my fellow Christian Bloggers.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve mentioned to You more than once, the wonderful people I\u2019ve met (virtually) while writing this blog have been an amazing blessing to me, and never fail to […]<\/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":[859,181,350,22,947,953,851,359,419,358,595,643,340,132,321,772,219,829,915,375,946,4,939,173,442,220,208,89,951,916,478,301,13,597,116,109,222,133,355,506,773,25,950,217,585,227,117,95,952,462,949,114,945,346,948,157,379,138],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-a-moment-with-god","tag-aidan","tag-amazing","tag-anniversary","tag-anniversary-gift","tag-award","tag-beautiful","tag-bible","tag-blessing","tag-blog","tag-blogger","tag-blogs","tag-ceremony","tag-children","tag-christ","tag-christian","tag-church","tag-company","tag-dear-lord","tag-delaware","tag-diamond-computer","tag-family","tag-family-and-friends","tag-father","tag-favorite","tag-fellowship","tag-gift","tag-health","tag-healthy-spirituality","tag-heavenly-father","tag-humbled","tag-husband","tag-inspiration","tag-jenifer","tag-jonathan","tag-journey","tag-joy","tag-love","tag-message","tag-morning","tag-mothers-on-mission","tag-peace","tag-peace-for-the-journey","tag-pray","tag-read","tag-shannon","tag-son","tag-spirit","tag-stylish-blogger-award","tag-surprised","tag-sweet-blessings","tag-thank-you","tag-vow-renewal-ceremony","tag-wedding","tag-wedding-ceremony","tag-wife","tag-wonderful","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-98","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}