{"id":178,"date":"2003-09-10T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T17:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/reality_prayers\/"},"modified":"2003-09-10T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2003-09-10T17:23:47","slug":"reality_prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/reality_prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was my youngest sister who sent me a page of prayers several years ago.  The one which stayed with me was:<br \/>\nGod, give me patience, and I mean right NOW!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe others are worth reading, too:<br \/>\nLord, help me to relax about insignificant details beginning tomorrow at 11:41:23 a.m. CDT.<br \/>\nGod, help me to consider other people&#8217;s feelings, even if most of them ARE hypersensitive.<br \/>\nGod, help me to take responsibility for my own actions, even though they&#8217;re usually NOT my fault.<br \/>\nGod, help me to not try to run everything.  But, if You need some help, just ask.<br \/>\nLord, help me to be more laid back and help me to do it EXACTLY right.<br \/>\nLord, help me to stand up for my rights (if you don&#8217;t mind my asking).<br \/>\nGod, help me to take things more seriously, especially parties and dancing.<br \/>\nLord, help me not to be a perfectionist. (Did I spell that correctly?)<br \/>\nGod, help me to finish everything I sta God, help me to keep my mind on one th-Look a bird-ing at a time.<br \/>\nGod, help me to do only what I can and trust you for the rest.  Do you mind putting that in writing?<br \/>\nLord, keep me open to others&#8217; ideas, WRONG though they may be.<br \/>\nLord, help me to be less independent, but let me do it my way.<br \/>\nLord, help me to follow established procedures today.  On second thought, I&#8217;ll settle for a few minutes.<br \/>\nAnd this one was underlined in red:<br \/>\nLord, help me slow downandnotrushthroughwhatIdo.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it was my youngest sister who sent me a page of prayers several years ago. The one which stayed with me was: God, give me patience, and I mean right NOW!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}