{"id":142987,"date":"2026-02-04T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142987"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:23:17","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-day-from-henry-alford-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142987","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the day from Henry Alford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O Lord, who alone canst cast out the evil passions and desires of the soul: Come among us, we pray thee, and by thy mighty power subdue our spiritual enemies, and set us free from the tyranny of sin. &nbsp;We ask it in thy name and for thy glory.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Fr\u00fche<br><br>Im Osten grauts, der Nebel f\u00e4llt,<br>Wer wei\u00df, wie bald sichs r\u00fchret!<br>Doch schwer im Schlaf noch ruht die Welt,<br>Von allem nichts versp\u00fcret.<br><br>Nur eine fr\u00fche Lerche steigt,<br>Es hat ihr was getr\u00e4umet<br>Vom Lichte, wenn noch alles schweigt,<br>Das kaum die H\u00f6hen s\u00e4umet.<br><br>(Joseph von\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ByIaX7yeZi\">pic.twitter.com\/ByIaX7yeZi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Thomas Stiegler (@StieglerThomas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StieglerThomas\/status\/2018950764652015683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Lord, who alone canst cast out the evil passions and desires of the soul: Come among us, we pray thee, and by thy mighty power subdue our spiritual enemies, and set us free from the tyranny of sin. &nbsp;We<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142987\">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-142987","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\/142987","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=142987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143037,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142987\/revisions\/143037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}