{"id":137897,"date":"2025-06-19T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137897"},"modified":"2025-06-19T05:51:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T09:51:23","slug":"a-prayer-for-juneteenth-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137897","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Juneteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear God our Father,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant us by your Holy Spirit grace to contend fearlessly against evil and to make no peace with oppression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Help us, like those generations before us who resisted the evil of slavery and human bondage in any form and any manner of oppression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Enable us to use our freedoms to bring justice among people and nations everywhere to the glory of your holy name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen (<i>modified form of a prayer from the Evangelical Lutheran Church Association&#8211;KSH<\/i>.)<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">19 June 1865. US government announced the abolition of slavery in Texas and for slaves in the former Confederate States. It\u2019s now known as \u201cJuneteenth Independence Day\u201d or \u201cFreedom Day\u201d and is an American holiday observed in 45 American states. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BBRaUNwbas\">pic.twitter.com\/BBRaUNwbas<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FXMC1957\/status\/1935611036217860524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear God our Father, Grant us by your Holy Spirit grace to contend fearlessly against evil and to make no peace with oppression. Help us, like those generations before us who resisted the evil of slavery and human bondage in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137897\">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":[209,133,120,108,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137897","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=137897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137899,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137897\/revisions\/137899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}