{"id":142194,"date":"2025-12-26T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142194"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:43:27","slug":"a-prayer-for-christmas-from-james-ferguson-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142194","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for Christmas from James Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grant us, O God, such love and wonder that, with humble shepherds, wise men and pilgrims unknown, we may come and adore the holy Babe, the heavenly King, and with our gifts worship and serve him, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Merry Christmas! \u201cWhat has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it\u201d (John 1:3-5)<br><br>Image: Georges de la Tour, The New-Born, c. 1645. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YGHrxB95vF\">pic.twitter.com\/YGHrxB95vF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kenneth Kovacs (@KenKovacs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenKovacs\/status\/2004230192408285291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant us, O God, such love and wonder that, with humble shepherds, wise men and pilgrims unknown, we may come and adore the holy Babe, the heavenly King, and with our gifts worship and serve him, our Lord and Saviour<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142194\">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":[575,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142194","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=142194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142200,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142194\/revisions\/142200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}