{"id":94983,"date":"2020-08-15T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94983"},"modified":"2020-08-15T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:18:13","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-day-from-sir-thomas-browne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94983","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Day from Sir Thomas Browne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O God, Who art all goodness, make me to love Thee for Thyself and my neighbour for Thee.  Bless me in this life with but peace of my conscience, command of my affections, the love of Thyself and my dearest friends, and I shall be happy enough to pity Caesar.  These are, O Lord, the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition, and all I dare call happiness on earth; wherein I set no rule or limit to Thy hand or providence.  Dispose of me according to the wisdom of Thy pleasure: Thy will be done, though in my own undoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Frederick B. Macnutt, <strong>The prayer manual for private devotions or public use on divers occasions: Compiled from all sources ancient, medieval, and modern<\/strong> (A.R. Mowbray, 1951)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sir Thomas Browne, an English polymath and author, was born on this day in 1605 and died on this day, in Norwich, in 1682. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Norwich?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Norwich<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sirthomasbrowne?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sirthomasbrowne<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sirthomasbrowneday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sirthomasbrowneday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SRS2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SRS2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FCHbjJ8bam\">pic.twitter.com\/FCHbjJ8bam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SRS Conference 2021 (@SRS2021Norwich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SRS2021Norwich\/status\/1053187177197248512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 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>O God, Who art all goodness, make me to love Thee for Thyself and my neighbour for Thee. Bless me in this life with but peace of my conscience, command of my affections, the love of Thyself and my dearest<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94983\">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-94983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94983","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=94983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94985,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94983\/revisions\/94985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}