{"id":147013,"date":"2026-08-21T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147013"},"modified":"2026-08-21T06:16:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:16:50","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-day-from-the-pastors-prayerook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147013","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the day from the Pastor&#8217;s Prayerbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O God, give me strength to live another day. &nbsp;Let me not turn coward before its difficulties or prove recreant to its duties. &nbsp;Let me not lose faith in my fellow men. &nbsp;Keep me sweet and sound of heart, in spite of ingratitude, treachery, or meanness. &nbsp;Preserve me from minding little stings or giving them. &nbsp;Help me to keep my heart clean, and to live so honestly and fearlessly that no outward failure can dishearten me or take away the joy of conscious integrity. &nbsp;Open wide the eyes of my soul that I may see good in all things. &nbsp;Grant me this day some new vision of thy truth, inspire me with the spirit of joy and gladness, and make me the cup of strength to suffering souls; in the name of the strong Deliverer, our only Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.<\/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\">Colourful dawn. Photo taken this morning from St Michael&#39;s tower on Glastonbury Tor at sunrise. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0uNOMzSMo8\">pic.twitter.com\/0uNOMzSMo8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michelle Cowbourne (@Glastomichelle) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Glastomichelle\/status\/2090694647899185496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, give me strength to live another day. &nbsp;Let me not turn coward before its difficulties or prove recreant to its duties. &nbsp;Let me not lose faith in my fellow men. &nbsp;Keep me sweet and sound of heart, in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147013\">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-147013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147013","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=147013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147017,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147013\/revisions\/147017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}