{"id":147042,"date":"2026-08-29T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147042"},"modified":"2026-08-29T07:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:52:43","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-day-from-e-m-goulburn-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147042","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the day from E. M. Goulburn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O Almighty God and Heavenly Father, who by thy divine providence has appointed for each of us our work in life, and hast commanded us that we should not be slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving thee; help us always to remember that our work is thy appointment, and to do it heartily as unto thee. \u00a0Preserve us from slothfulness, and make us to live with loins girded and lamps burning, that whensoever our Lord may come, we may be found striving earnestly to finish the work that thou hast given us to do; through the same Jesus Christ our Saviour.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our National Park Week countdown heads to the Gulf Coast! <br><br>Gulf Islands National Seashore stretches across Florida and Mississippi with white-sand beaches, barrier islands and historic forts. <br><br>Photo by Kimberly Herold <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5MMLVJzUkM\">pic.twitter.com\/5MMLVJzUkM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; U.S. Department of the Interior (@Interior) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Interior\/status\/2093429720159248815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Almighty God and Heavenly Father, who by thy divine providence has appointed for each of us our work in life, and hast commanded us that we should not be slothful in business, but fervent in spirit, serving thee; help<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=147042\">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-147042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147042","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=147042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147044,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147042\/revisions\/147044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}