{"id":471,"date":"2011-02-17T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T16:40:00","slug":"a-prayer-before-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"A prayer before driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Father,<br \/>I place myself into your hands as I begin this journey;<br \/>I ask that your Spirit might help me maintain a trust and serenity throughout my journey so that, when I arrive, I might be a source of peace and good will to those whom I meet;<br \/>I ask you to help me hold in mind all the many things that I have no control over, especially how long it will take me to reach my destination;<br \/>most of all, I ask that you will keep me [and those with me] safe, and that I cause no suffering to those who share the road with me;<br \/>This I ask, in the name of Christ my Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>(Something I&#8217;ve been thinking about since preaching <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphaniantns.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/message-from-lord.html\">this sermon<\/a> on Sunday, and since all my family have just gone away on a long journey!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy Father,I place myself into your hands as I begin this journey;I ask that your Spirit might help me maintain a trust and serenity throughout my journey so that, when I arrive, I might be a source of peace and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-7B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}