{"id":88272,"date":"2020-01-05T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88272"},"modified":"2020-01-05T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T12:37:23","slug":"a-prayer-for-christmas-from-robert-louis-stevenson-1850-1894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88272","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Christmas from Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loving Father, Help us remember the birth of Jesus,<br \/>\nthat we may share in the song of the angels,<br \/>\nthe gladness of the shepherds,<br \/>\nand worship of the wise men.<\/p>\n<p>Close the door of hate and open the door of love all over the world. Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting. Deliver us from evil by the blessing which Christ brings, and teach us to be merry with clear hearts.<\/p>\n<p>May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children, and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus\u2019 sake. Amen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gospel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gospel<\/a> of the Day (John 1,1-18) Merry <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Christmas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Christmas<\/a><br \/>\nIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/60wq4pjmXf\">https:\/\/t.co\/60wq4pjmXf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GGoSCZW1pm\">pic.twitter.com\/GGoSCZW1pm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vatican News (@VaticanNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VaticanNews\/status\/1077530681893371904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2018<\/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>Loving Father, Help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and worship of the wise men. Close the door of hate and open the door of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88272\">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":[575,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88272","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=88272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88278,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88272\/revisions\/88278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}