{"id":131000,"date":"2024-09-06T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131000"},"modified":"2024-09-06T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T13:21:26","slug":"a-prayer-to-begin-the-day-from-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131000","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to Begin the day from Henry Alford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God, who hast commanded us to walk in the Spirit and not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh: Perfect us, we pray thee, in love, that we may conquer our natural selfishness and give ourselves to others. &nbsp;Fill our hearts with thy joy, and garrison them with thy peace; make us longsuffering and gentle, and thus subdue our hasty and angry tempers; give us faithfulness, meekness and self-control; that so crucifying the flesh with its affections and lusts, we may bring forth the fruit of the Spirit to thy praise and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stac Pollaidh from Loch Cul Dromannan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Scotland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Scotland<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Assynt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Assynt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Coigach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Coigach<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ERVTYHoo8V\">https:\/\/t.co\/ERVTYHoo8V<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TYzHxuz18T\">pic.twitter.com\/TYzHxuz18T<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Damian Shields (@DamianShields1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DamianShields1\/status\/1831974399572058162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, who hast commanded us to walk in the Spirit and not to fulfill the lusts of the flesh: Perfect us, we pray thee, in love, that we may conquer our natural selfishness and give ourselves to others. &nbsp;Fill<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=131000\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131006,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131000\/revisions\/131006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}