{"id":139372,"date":"2025-08-29T09:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139372"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:06:15","slug":"a-prayer-for-today-from-the-pastors-prayerbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139372","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for today from the Pastor&#8217;s Prayerbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Father of lights, from whose unshadowed home above comes every good and perfect gift, I receive as from Thy hand my share in the common blessings which, without respect of persons, hourly descend upon mankind. \u00a0I thank Thee for the special tokens of Thy friendship and personal care that have made me glad this day. \u00a0Help me to use these and all Thy bounties according to Thy design, that my whole life may be a hymn of praise to Thee; through Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p>\u2013Robert W. Rodenmayer, ed., <strong>The Pastor\u2019s Prayerbook: Selected and arranged for various occasions<\/strong> (New York: Oxford University Press, 1960)<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pretty early morning view of the Ravenel Bridge from Downtown Charleston! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YH9iEToi47\">pic.twitter.com\/YH9iEToi47<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joey Sovine Live 5 (@JoeySovine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeySovine\/status\/1961374102083477534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father of lights, from whose unshadowed home above comes every good and perfect gift, I receive as from Thy hand my share in the common blessings which, without respect of persons, hourly descend upon mankind. \u00a0I thank Thee for the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139372\">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-139372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139372","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=139372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139374,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139372\/revisions\/139374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}