15. Contact lenses.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nHeavenly Father, thank You for these and all the other Blessings You bestow on us each day.\u00a0 You are indeed a wondrous Lord, and I lift my heart to You in joyous praise.<\/p>\n
Amen.<\/p>\n
~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; Happy Thankful Thursday Father! This evening Lord, I\u2019ve decided to try something a little bit different for our Thankful Thursday conversation.\u00a0 Instead of focusing on one specific thing You\u2019ve Blessed me with, I\u2019m going to take a page from the idea behind \u201cMultitudes on Mondays\u201d as described in the book \u201cOne Thousand Gifts\u201d […]<\/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":[9,618,168,256,419,12,358,595,182,101,321,772,1234,1237,556,1236,915,610,611,4,939,173,619,1235,871,42,228,208,59,1035,457,248,444,140,593,916,159,271,519,116,222,267,879,190,304,506,1231,1233,1232,601,69,585,88,727,227,187,73,117,817,986,114,40,1034,430,468,481,157,371,1219,138],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-alone","tag-bed","tag-bless","tag-blessed","tag-blessing","tag-blessings","tag-blog","tag-blogger","tag-boys","tag-challenges","tag-christ","tag-christian","tag-coffee-in-the-morning","tag-contact-lenses","tag-conversation","tag-dark-beer","tag-dear-lord","tag-different","tag-experience","tag-family","tag-family-and-friends","tag-father","tag-feeling","tag-fellow-christian","tag-fire","tag-focus","tag-friend","tag-gift","tag-grace","tag-grace-alone","tag-grow","tag-growth","tag-happy","tag-heart","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-home","tag-inspiring","tag-job","tag-jonathan","tag-joy","tag-joyous","tag-just","tag-kids","tag-monday","tag-morning","tag-multitudes-on-mondays","tag-nasal-irrigation","tag-one-thousand-gifts","tag-praise","tag-quiet","tag-read","tag-remission","tag-rest","tag-shannon","tag-sleep","tag-smile","tag-son","tag-start","tag-state-forest","tag-thank-you","tag-thankful","tag-thankful-thursday","tag-time","tag-tradition","tag-week","tag-wife","tag-wondrous","tag-woodland-beach","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-fC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>6. Sitting at the firepit on our back deck and enjoying time with friends.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n