{"id":146942,"date":"2026-07-31T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146942"},"modified":"2026-07-31T05:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T09:54:24","slug":"a-prayer-to-begin-the-day-from-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146942","title":{"rendered":"A prayer to begin the day adapted from a 16th century German prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty Father, who by thy Son Jesus Christ hast taught us to beware of false prophets: Have mercy upon thy Church, we beseech thee, to deliver it from all evil; and give us faithful pastors and teachers who shall truly fulfill thy command and preach nothing contrary to thy Holy Word; that we thy people, being instructed, nurtured and comforted by thy heavenly truth, may bring forth fruit to thy glory; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the Victorian language of flowers, the blue hydrangea was said to symbolise, rather harshly, boastfulness and a cold heart. A favourite in floral arrangements for ballrooms and assembly halls, it became associated with the vain coquette admired only for her appearance. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dWPglUvcq6\">pic.twitter.com\/dWPglUvcq6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; VenetiaJane&#39;s Garden (@VenetiaJane) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VenetiaJane\/status\/2083085272766353668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty Father, who by thy Son Jesus Christ hast taught us to beware of false prophets: Have mercy upon thy Church, we beseech thee, to deliver it from all evil; and give us faithful pastors and teachers who shall truly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146942\">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-146942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146942","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=146942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146949,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146942\/revisions\/146949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}