{"id":137189,"date":"2025-05-21T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137189"},"modified":"2025-05-21T05:42:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T09:42:48","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-lydia-of-thyatira-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137189","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Lydia of Thyatira"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eternal God, who gives good gifts to all people, and who teaches us to have the same spirit of generosity: Give unto us, we pray thee, hearts that are always open to hear thy word, that following the example of thy servant Lydia, we may show hospitality to all who are in any need or trouble, through Jesus Christ our Lord who lives and reigns with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, now and for ever. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Lydia was a woman of two cultures, Thyatira and Philippi. Like many women in the Bible, little is known about her.&quot; Read Lydia by Kennedy Thedford and Tina Pippin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LV8z5gOdcJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/LV8z5gOdcJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WomensHistoryMonth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WomensHistoryMonth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BWkzatFwHj\">pic.twitter.com\/BWkzatFwHj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bible Odyssey (@bibleodyssey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bibleodyssey\/status\/1631685914308096000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eternal God, who gives good gifts to all people, and who teaches us to have the same spirit of generosity: Give unto us, we pray thee, hearts that are always open to hear thy word, that following the example of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137189\">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":[186,188,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-spiritualityprayer","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137189","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=137189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137193,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137189\/revisions\/137193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}