{"id":428,"date":"2007-06-27T22:37:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T03:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2007-06-27T22:37:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T03:37:56","slug":"a-prayer-of-thanks-for-what-i-dont-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer of Thanks For What I Don&#8217;t Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: God is one of those things that I still intellectually struggle with. I haven&#8217;t fully surrendered to His will, I tend to dispute issues in the Bible that seem improbable, and I can&#8217;t let go of the belief that I can do it on my own, so discussing prayer is not easy for me. However, that won&#8217;t stop me).<\/p>\n<p>Lord,<\/p>\n<p>I thank you for not being sick. I ask that you bring health and healing to those who are.<\/p>\n<p>I thank you for not being hungry. I ask that you bring nourishment to those in need.<\/p>\n<p>I thank you for not being out of work. I ask that you lead people who need work to where they&#8217;re meant to go.<\/p>\n<p>I thank you for not being out of touch with my family. I ask that you help broken hearts reconcile or at least find resolution in your will.<\/p>\n<p>I thank you for not letting me give up on my mental health. Please open those who need help&#8217;s minds to allow peace to enter in.<\/p>\n<p>I thank you for not giving up on me. Please keep not giving up.<\/p>\n<p>In your name I pray, in your way I try to follow, in your will I am, Amen.<\/p>\n<p>(Updates: Chewie&#8217;s hip is back in its socket. My grandma is cancer free. This is all good.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: God is one of those things that I still intellectually struggle with. I haven&#8217;t fully surrendered to His will, I tend to dispute issues in the Bible that seem improbable, and I can&#8217;t let go of the belief that I can do it on my own, so discussing prayer is not easy for me. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Prayer of Thanks For What I Don&#8217;t Have&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}