{"id":5784,"date":"2010-08-29T03:45:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:48:53","slug":"for-sunday-st-birgittas-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2010\/08\/for-sunday-st-birgittas-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"For Sunday: St. Birgitta&#8217;s Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug10\/WildAster3529.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug10\/WildAster3529W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"450\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 450px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O Lord, make haste and illumine the night.<br \/>\nSay to my soul<br \/>\nthat nothing happens without Your permitting it,<br \/>\nand that nothing of what You permit is without comfort.<br \/>\nO Jesus, Son of God,<br \/>\nYou Who were silent in the presence of Your accusers,<br \/>\nrestrain my tongue<br \/>\nuntil I find what it should say and how to say it.<br \/>\nShow me the way and make me ready to follow it.<br \/>\nGive peace, O Lord, to my heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Prayer of Saint Birgitta of 14th century Sweden<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug10\/WildAster3520.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug10\/WildAster3520W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"450\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 450px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Spacer65050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photos taken 8\/28\/2010 in my woods:  Wild Asters.  The flowers are about 1\/2 inch in diameter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Lord, make haste and illumine the night. Say to my soul that nothing happens without Your permitting it, and that nothing of what You permit is without comfort. O Jesus, Son of God, You Who were silent in the presence of Your accusers, restrain my tongue until I find what it should say and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21757,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/21757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}