{"id":142366,"date":"2026-01-03T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142366"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:14:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:14:29","slug":"a-prayer-for-christmas-from-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142366","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for Christmas from Prayers for the Christian Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most merciful God, for whose chosen handmaid and her Holy Babe there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem: Help us all by thy Spirit to make room for the Christ in our common days, that his peace and joy may fill our hearts, and his love flow through our lives to the blessing of others; for his name\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014<strong>Prayers for the Christian Year<\/strong>&nbsp;(SCM, 1964)<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Time we spent <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ifkDdFikm\">pic.twitter.com\/1ifkDdFikm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Paul Willson (@pauljwillson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pauljwillson\/status\/2007341383607288160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most merciful God, for whose chosen handmaid and her Holy Babe there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem: Help us all by thy Spirit to make room for the Christ in our common days, that his peace and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142366\">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-142366","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\/142366","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=142366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142389,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142366\/revisions\/142389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}