here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\nAs You know Father, my marriage to Shannon is something that I spend quite a bit of time talking with You about.\u00a0 You\u2019ve Blessed me beyond words with our life together, and I am truly thankful for having her as my wife.\u00a0 Watching the Cross Point video last night, I started thinking back over the trials we\u2019ve experienced in our nearly 16 years together, and how You\u2019ve used those times of struggle to highlight Your Gifts to us, and bring us closer in Your Love.\u00a0 Like any other couple we absolutely have our moments of discord Father, but funny enough love wins out every time.\u00a0 Thank You so much for being our marriage counselor over the years.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\u201cLove is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.<\/strong> <\/strong> It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.<\/strong> <\/strong> Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.<\/strong> <\/strong> It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.\u201d \u2013 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)<\/strong><\/p>\nHaving an instruction manual really is handy Lord.<\/p>\n
Heavenly Father, I thank You for being a Guiding and Strengthening Presence in our marriage.\u00a0 I pray that You continue to Bless our union, and that we\u2019re able to share Your message of Hope and Love with those around us.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n
~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; Good afternoon Father! Last night Lord, I finally got a chance to sit down and watch the first in a series of video podcasts put out by Cross Point Church focusing on marriage.\u00a0 The series is entitled \u201c5 Things\u201d, and focuses on five areas which if not recognized and tended to carefully, could […]<\/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":[505,762,359,168,256,107,219,973,644,1061,856,1126,915,704,1129,638,741,611,173,42,536,208,276,847,593,916,251,464,224,757,78,104,133,1128,1127,23,1125,355,203,670,1060,217,41,699,568,547,227,117,817,86,777,672,114,40,430,789,785,884,339,157,1096,348,723,97],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-afternoon","tag-anger","tag-bible","tag-bless","tag-blessed","tag-care","tag-church","tag-corinthians","tag-counsel","tag-cross-point-church","tag-dangerous","tag-dangerous-consequences","tag-dear-lord","tag-discord","tag-divine-marriage-counselor","tag-episode","tag-evil","tag-experience","tag-father","tag-focus","tag-forward","tag-gift","tag-gifts","tag-guiding","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-honor","tag-hope","tag-hopes","tag-kind","tag-life","tag-light","tag-love","tag-love-is-kind","tag-love-is-patient","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-counselor","tag-message","tag-moments","tag-night","tag-pete-wilson","tag-pray","tag-presence","tag-recognize","tag-recognized","tag-serious","tag-shannon","tag-son","tag-start","tag-strength","tag-struggle","tag-talking","tag-thank-you","tag-thankful","tag-time","tag-trials","tag-truth","tag-tune","tag-union","tag-wife","tag-withoutwax-tv","tag-word","tag-words","tag-worth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-cZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}