{"id":143251,"date":"2026-02-13T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143251"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:32:39","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-day-from-the-pastors-prayerbook-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143251","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the day from the Pastor\u2019s Prayerbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God, who through thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised a blessing to the meek upon earth, take from us all pride and vanity, boasting and forwardness; and give us the true courage that shows itself by gentleness, the true wisdom that shows itself by simplicity, and the true power that shows itself by modesty; for Christ\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Robert W. Rodenmayer, ed.,&nbsp;<strong>The Pastor\u2019s Prayerbook: Selected and arranged for various occasions<\/strong>&nbsp;(New York: Oxford University Press, 1960)<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You might want to sit down for this post&#8230;..&#x1f602;<br>I actually spotted the shiny golden thing in the sky this morning. It was trying hard to hide behind some stubborn low cloud but we got there in the end. <br>Photo taken not long after sunrise on Glastonbury Tor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VnUL6f90Ba\">pic.twitter.com\/VnUL6f90Ba<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michelle Cowbourne (@Glastomichelle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Glastomichelle\/status\/2022239696978620558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 13, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, who through thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised a blessing to the meek upon earth, take from us all pride and vanity, boasting and forwardness; and give us the true courage that shows itself by gentleness, the true<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143251\">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-143251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143251","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=143251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143256,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143251\/revisions\/143256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}