{"id":82401,"date":"2019-06-08T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82401"},"modified":"2019-06-08T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T12:12:17","slug":"a-prayer-to-begin-the-day-from-thomas-ken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82401","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer to Begin the Day from Thomas Ken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed be Thy Name, O Lord God, Who hast  set before me life and death, and hast bid me choose life.  Behold, Lord, I do with all my heart choose life; I choose Thee, O my God, for Thou art my life.  Save, Lord, and hear me, O King of heaven, and accept my sacrifice, even the sacrifice of my whole heart, which I now give Thee.  O my God, I offer Thee my senses and passions, and all my faculties; I offer Thee all my desires, all my designs, all my studies, all my endeavours, all the remainder of my life; all that I have, or am, I offer up all entirely to Thy service.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, sanctify me wholly, that my whole spirit, soul, and body may become Thy temple.  O do Thou dwell in me, and be Thou my God, and I will be Thy servant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Frederick B. Macnutt, <b>The prayer manual for private devotions or public use on divers occasions: Compiled from all sources ancient, medieval, and modern<\/b> (A.R. Mowbray, 1951)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today we remember Thomas Ken, an eighteenth-century Bishop of Bath and Wells <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Rx8Z9JVv6\">https:\/\/t.co\/1Rx8Z9JVv6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oD6gUGNmWm\">pic.twitter.com\/oD6gUGNmWm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peterborough Cathedral (@pborocathedral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pborocathedral\/status\/1137241610335543296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed be Thy Name, O Lord God, Who hast set before me life and death, and hast bid me choose life. Behold, Lord, I do with all my heart choose life; I choose Thee, O my God, for Thou art<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=82401\">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-82401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82401","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=82401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82404,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82401\/revisions\/82404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}