{"id":142742,"date":"2026-01-21T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142742"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:10:13","slug":"a-prayer-to-begin-the-day-from-henry-johnstone-wotherspoon-1850-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142742","title":{"rendered":"A prayer to begin the day from Henry Johnstone Wotherspoon (1850-1930)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God, who hast set in thy Church some with gifts to teach and help and administer, in diversity of operation but of the same Spirit: Grant to all such, we beseech thee, grace to wait on the ministry which they have received in the body of Christ with simplicity, diligence, and cheerfulness; that none may think of himself more highly than he ought to think, and none may seek another man\u2019s calling, but rather to be found faithful in his own work; to the glory of thy name in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013The Rev. H. J. Wotherspoon [1850-1930],&nbsp;<strong>Kyrie eleison (\u201cLord, have mercy\u201d): A Manual of Private Prayers<\/strong>&nbsp;(Philadelphia: Westminster, 1905)<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sleepless Speechless<br>Actually I was looking forward to go to bed early yesterday evening. But of course I couldn&#39;t skip this spectacle at the night sky. Dancing Northern Lights at the edge of the Alps once again.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/northernlights?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#northernlights<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/polarlichter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#polarlichter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nordlicht?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nordlicht<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mY9KlObtZ3\">pic.twitter.com\/mY9KlObtZ3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kilian Sch\u00f6nberger (@Schoenberger_K) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schoenberger_K\/status\/2013558165141393909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, who hast set in thy Church some with gifts to teach and help and administer, in diversity of operation but of the same Spirit: Grant to all such, we beseech thee, grace to wait on the ministry which<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142742\">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":[568,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epiphany","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142742","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=142742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142748,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142742\/revisions\/142748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}