{"id":1072,"date":"2020-04-03T07:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2020-04-03T07:38:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T06:38:59","slug":"o-give-thanks-to-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/04\/03\/o-give-thanks-to-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"O give thanks to the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever!&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; this is from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sunday's Lectionary (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=29\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Prayer<\/em><\/strong><br><em>&#8220;O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever!&#8221;<\/em><br><em>Merciful God,<br>please bring the day<br>when we can say those words<br>and mean what we say.<br>Please bring the day<br>when all people, both those currently rich,<br>and those now poor<br>can give you thanks<br>with honest and open hearts.<br>Wipe away our tears, we pray,<br>help us to heal one another,<br>strengthen and inspire us<br>to bring an end to the diseases that hurt us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Give us the Spirit of Jesus,<br>humble and sat on a donkey,<br>yet big enough to tell the truth<br>to those in power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Living God, through our tears<br>we thank you for<br>mercies we do not yet know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever!&#8221; &#8230; this is from Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary. Prayer&#8220;O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever!&#8221;Merciful God,please bring the daywhen we can say those wordsand mean what we say.Please bring the daywhen all people, both &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2020\/04\/03\/o-give-thanks-to-the-lord\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O give thanks to the Lord&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}