{"id":736,"date":"2011-03-18T20:48:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T01:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=736"},"modified":"2011-03-18T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T01:50:51","slug":"the-best-laid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"The Best Laid Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Lord; Happy Friday Father!<\/p>\n

Well Lord, it\u2019s certainly been an eventful week in the Malmstrom household.\u00a0 Between hectic work schedules, symphony and quartet performances for Shannon, schoolwork and associated activities and then on top of that Shannon and I both getting a respiratory bug yesterday afternoon, we\u2019ve been running non-stop it seems.\u00a0 This illness nailed us both out of the blue and hit pretty hard, so this evening we\u2019re finally settling down and trying to get some \u201cquiet time\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I was actually feeling a little down tonight Father.\u00a0 Being as tomorrow is my birthday, Shannon and I had been planning to go out Saturday evening for a \u201cDate Night\u201d<\/em>, but with both of us catching this bug we ended up cancelling our plans.\u00a0 I\u2019d been looking forward to our night out for a couple weeks, so it was a bit of a disappointment when I realized there was no way either of us was up to it.<\/p>\n

Sitting around the dinner table this evening, it was a little on the subdued side; with both Shannon and I projecting raspy voices, conversation was somewhat limited.\u00a0 About half-way through the meal, Shannon gave me a thoughtful look, and handed me a gift bag from across the table.\u00a0 I protested slightly that my birthday was tomorrow and that I\u2019d wait, but she was insistent so I gave in and took the bag.\u00a0 Inside was a beautifully romantic birthday card, a FastBreak candy bar, a bag of jelly beans, and this:<\/p>\n

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I have such an amazing wife Father\u2026 \u00a0\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your Constant Presence in our lives.\u00a0 Whether we\u2019re healthy, sick, energetic, or tired You remain by our sides, ever-faithful.\u00a0 As my loving wife\u2019s gift reminded me this evening, our disappointments pale in comparison to the Blessings You grant us each and every day when we choose to see them.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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

Dear Lord; Happy Friday Father! Well Lord, it\u2019s certainly been an eventful week in the Malmstrom household.\u00a0 Between hectic work schedules, symphony and quartet performances for Shannon, schoolwork and associated activities and then on top of that Shannon and I both getting a respiratory bug yesterday afternoon, we\u2019ve been running non-stop it seems.\u00a0 This illness […]<\/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":[502,505,350,851,1078,207,1081,168,419,12,556,625,915,891,15,173,619,536,628,208,444,964,89,471,593,916,806,976,520,121,104,96,1079,141,942,16,813,892,41,69,1080,683,629,174,832,227,232,117,114,784,481,157],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-activities","tag-afternoon","tag-amazing","tag-beautiful","tag-best-laid-plans","tag-birthday","tag-birthday-card","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-blessings","tag-conversation","tag-date-night","tag-dear-lord","tag-disappointments","tag-faith","tag-father","tag-feeling","tag-forward","tag-friday","tag-gift","tag-happy","tag-happy-friday","tag-health","tag-healthy","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-hectic","tag-house","tag-household","tag-illness","tag-light","tag-loving","tag-loving-wife","tag-mind","tag-out-of-the-blue","tag-plan","tag-planning","tag-plans","tag-presence","tag-quiet","tag-quiet-time","tag-realize","tag-saturday","tag-school","tag-schoolwork","tag-shannon","tag-sick","tag-son","tag-thank-you","tag-tomorrow","tag-week","tag-wife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-bS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}