{"id":992,"date":"2011-05-19T19:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T00:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=992"},"modified":"2011-05-19T19:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T00:15:36","slug":"thankful-thursday-more-multitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: More Multitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord; Happy Thankful Thursday Father!<\/p>\n<p>Following last week\u2019s example Lord, I\u2019m going to add to the list of Your Gifts that I\u2019ve been especially grateful for this past week.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny, but since last week\u2019s posting I\u2019ve been finding myself making mental notes as I go through the day; <em>\u201cWow\u2026 This needs to make the list this week!\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0 I love having the mindset of <em>\u201cfiling\u201d<\/em> all those wonderful Blessings You bestow on me so I can write them down later on.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyways Father, here\u2019s my list this week:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>16. Children who remember to say grace at dinnertime\u2026 Even when I forget.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>17. A caring, God-loving veterinarian who understands what our \u201cfurry family members\u201d mean to us.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>18. Hunny responding well to the medication after only two days.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>19. Good friends who go out of their way to help our family.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>20. Live worship messages streaming from <a title=\"Cross Point Church\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crosspoint.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crosspoint.tv<\/a> on Sunday nights.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>21. A staff who \u201crolls with the punches\u201d in uncertain times.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>22. Finding a Bluetooth headset for my phone that fits comfortably and works properly, (finally!)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>23. Spring rainstorms that lull me to sleep at night.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>24. A wife who likes mowing the lawn.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>25. The smell of warm cinnamon bread baking in the oven.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>26. Exploring the beauty and wonders of nature with the boys.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>27. My hacked Nook Color Android Tablet.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>28. Breakfast for Dinner.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>29. The online Bible at <a title=\"YouVersion.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youversion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">YouVersion.com<\/a> which I can access from my PC, my phone and my Android tablet.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>30. Chunks of fresh strawberries in my fruit slushie.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heavenly Father, as always this list could go on, and on, and on\u2026 Your Blessings surround us all each day, and I just love connecting with You further by putting them in writing.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p>~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord; Happy Thankful Thursday Father! Following last week\u2019s example Lord, I\u2019m going to add to the list of Your Gifts that I\u2019ve been especially grateful for this past week.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny, but since last week\u2019s posting I\u2019ve been finding myself making mental notes as I go through the day; \u201cWow\u2026 This needs to make [&hellip;]<\/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":[865,359,168,419,182,770,286,132,27,1061,807,915,541,4,173,844,843,228,24,110,208,966,59,427,444,731,593,916,804,1242,879,901,1248,133,96,238,664,355,824,141,274,1231,77,845,670,1232,977,46,585,609,187,373,1151,867,1249,631,40,1034,430,697,1245,481,157,378,379,138,454,604],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-beauty","tag-bible","tag-bless","tag-blessing","tag-boys","tag-caring","tag-child","tag-children","tag-comfort","tag-cross-point-church","tag-days","tag-dear-lord","tag-example","tag-family","tag-father","tag-follow","tag-forget","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-fun","tag-gift","tag-god","tag-grace","tag-grateful","tag-happy","tag-head","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-help","tag-hunny","tag-just","tag-law","tag-list-of-blessings","tag-love","tag-loving","tag-mental","tag-mess","tag-message","tag-messages","tag-mind","tag-minds","tag-multitudes-on-mondays","tag-nature","tag-need","tag-night","tag-one-thousand-gifts","tag-phone","tag-rain","tag-read","tag-remember","tag-sleep","tag-special","tag-spring-rain","tag-storm","tag-strawberry","tag-sunday","tag-thankful","tag-thankful-thursday","tag-time","tag-understand","tag-veterinarian","tag-week","tag-wife","tag-wonder","tag-wonderful","tag-work","tag-works","tag-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-g0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}