{"id":720,"date":"2011-03-15T19:17:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T00:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=720"},"modified":"2011-03-15T19:17:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T00:17:47","slug":"children-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Children of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Lord; Good evening Father!<\/p>\n

Well Father, it\u2019s certainly been a hectic day around here albeit a positive and somewhat enlightening one.\u00a0 Some \u201cpuzzle pieces\u201d<\/em> in my life are starting to fit together into something recognizable. \u00a0Thank You for that glimmer of a picture\u2026 I can\u2019t wait to see the completed image.<\/p>\n

Today Lord, I started the morning with a happy grin on my face.\u00a0 While driving the kids to school, the song \u201cChildren of God\u201d<\/em> performed by the group Third Day<\/a> came on the radio:<\/p>\n

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My head was elsewhere initially, but I snapped to when I realized I was being serenaded by my two boys in the back seat singing the children’s part.\u00a0 What a joyous smile it brought hearing them praising You in song first thing in the morning!\u00a0 Better than coffee Father.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

On another note Father, I started a new book yesterday that I\u2019ve very much been looking forward to reading.\u00a0 It\u2019s written by Pete Wilson<\/a>, Senior Pastor for Cross Point Church<\/a> and the book is titled \u201cPlan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn’t Show Up the Way You Thought He Would?\u201d.<\/em> I only had time to get through the first couple chapters last night, but I\u2019m enjoying it so far.\u00a0 Pastor Wilson brings a wonderful \u201cgenuine\u201d<\/em> feel to his writing, and I\u2019m excited to see where this tome takes me in the chapters ahead.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You for the smiles of the day, for fitting puzzle pieces, for connecting me with others who inspire me along my journey, and for remaining ever-vigilant and ever-faithful in Your Love for us all.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Lord; Good evening Father! Well Father, it\u2019s certainly been a hectic day around here albeit a positive and somewhat enlightening one.\u00a0 Some \u201cpuzzle pieces\u201d in my life are starting to fit together into something recognizable. \u00a0Thank You for that glimmer of a picture\u2026 I can\u2019t wait to see the completed image. Today Lord, I […]<\/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":[182,286,132,1058,581,1061,915,259,335,15,173,444,780,593,916,806,475,109,222,267,190,78,104,133,506,84,670,1060,16,1062,445,1057,585,683,174,72,117,258,817,114,1059,171,378,379,138],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-boys","tag-child","tag-children","tag-children-of-god","tag-control","tag-cross-point-church","tag-dear-lord","tag-driving","tag-excited","tag-faith","tag-father","tag-happy","tag-hearing","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-hectic","tag-inspire","tag-journey","tag-joy","tag-joyous","tag-kids","tag-life","tag-light","tag-love","tag-morning","tag-name","tag-night","tag-pete-wilson","tag-plan","tag-plan-b","tag-positive","tag-puzzle-pieces","tag-read","tag-realize","tag-school","tag-singing","tag-son","tag-song","tag-start","tag-thank-you","tag-third-day","tag-value","tag-wonder","tag-wonderful","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-bC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","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=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}