Dear Lord; Good morning Father.<\/p>\n
Today Lord, while \u201cStumbling\u201d<\/em><\/a> through Internet sites focused on Christianity I came across a prayer in the form of a poem that really caught my attention, made me think and warmed my heart.\u00a0 Doing some quick research, I found that it was written by a lady named Joanne Gobure<\/a> and the original title of the piece was \u201cA Beautiful Prayer\u201d<\/em> :<\/p>\n I asked God to take away my pain. I asked God to grant me patience. I asked God to give me happiness. I asked God to spare me pain. I asked God to make my spirit grow. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life. I asked God to help me LOVE others, “Ahhhh, finally you have the idea.”<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n May God Bless You, \u2026Lots to think about and pray on here Father.\u00a0 Thank You for putting this in my path today.<\/p>\n Amen.<\/p>\n ~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Lord; Good morning Father. Today Lord, while \u201cStumbling\u201d through Internet sites focused on Christianity I came across a prayer in the form of a poem that really caught my attention, made me think and warmed my heart.\u00a0 Doing some quick research, I found that it was written by a lady named Joanne Gobure and […]<\/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":[971,99,851,359,419,210,321,772,915,173,42,966,79,140,804,360,972,222,345,78,133,506,85,19,81,217,205,117,20,114],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-a-beautiful-prayer","tag-attention","tag-beautiful","tag-bible","tag-blessing","tag-cares","tag-christ","tag-christian","tag-dear-lord","tag-father","tag-focus","tag-god","tag-happiness","tag-heart","tag-help","tag-internet","tag-joanne-gobure","tag-joy","tag-learn","tag-life","tag-love","tag-morning","tag-origin","tag-pain","tag-path","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-son","tag-suffering","tag-thank-you"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-9D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGod said, No.
\nIt is not for me to take away,
\nbut for you to give it\u00a0 up.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGod said, No.
\nPatience is a by-product of tribulations;
\nit isn’t granted, it is learned.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGod said, No.
\nI give you blessings.
\nHappiness is up to you.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGod said, No.
\nSuffering draws you apart from
\nworldly cares and\u00a0brings you closer to me.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGod said, No.
\nYou must grow on your own,
\nbut I will prune you to make you fruitful.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGod said, No.
\nI will give you life,
\nso that you may enjoy all things.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nas much\u00a0 as he loves me.
\nGod Said…<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n“To the world you might be one person,
\nBut to one person you just might be the world.”<\/strong><\/p>\n