{"id":2425,"date":"2008-11-27T22:00:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T02:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2008-11-27T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T03:42:22","slug":"our-thanksgiving-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/11\/our-thanksgiving-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Thanksgiving Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord and Lady &#8211; the mediators &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>And to the Sweet God above all gods &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>We thank you for this meal that we are here to enjoy together. <\/p>\n<p>We pray for those who are sick, lonely, afraid, and in need &#8211; that you may send them strength and comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Protect us from domination and destructive intent &#8211; and help us to combat it in fairness and love.<\/p>\n<p>Help our leaders to remember, and to honor, the well-being of the people &#8211; all the people &#8211; everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>We humbly ask that you provide what we need for our souls and bodies and minds to grow and be well.<\/p>\n<p>Help us to attune to that sweet spot of thriving &#8211; between order and chaos &#8211; as we navigate our world.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive us our shortcomings, and help us to forgive those who hurt us.<br \/>\nHelp us to be mindful, loving, patient and kind.<\/p>\n<p>May we dwell with the Spirit, in gratitude, and with brave and compassionate hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord and Lady &#8211; the mediators &#8211; And to the Sweet God above all gods &#8211; We thank you for this meal that we are here to enjoy together. We pray for those who are sick, lonely, afraid, and in need &#8211; that you may send them strength and comfort. Protect us from domination and destructive intent &#8211; and help us to combat it in fairness and love. Help our leaders to remember, and to honor, the well-being of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2008\/11\/our-thanksgiving-prayer\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[505,1499],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-religion","tag-prayer","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}