{"id":2267,"date":"2006-12-02T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/02\/december-2-the-blessing-of-unanswered-prayers"},"modified":"2009-01-18T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T13:46:32","slug":"december-2-the-blessing-of-unanswered-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/02\/december-2-the-blessing-of-unanswered-prayers","title":{"rendered":"December 2 &#8211; The Blessing of Unanswered Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-cut text=\"The Blessing of Unanswered Prayers\"><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/juno_magic\/pic\/000aze7a\" alt=\"The Blessing of Unanswered Prayers\"><font size=\"1\">Based on &#8220;Dandy Lines&#8221; by tvvoodoo at stock.XCHANG. <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I asked for strength that I might achieve;<br \/>\nI was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.<br \/>\nI asked for health that I might do greater things;<br \/>\nI was given infirmity that I might do better things.<br \/>\nI asked for riches that I might be happy;<br \/>\nI was given poverty that I might be wise.<br \/>\nI asked for power that I might have the praise of men;<br \/>\nI was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.<br \/>\nI asked for all things that I might enjoy life;<br \/>\nI was given life that I might enjoy all things.<br \/>\nI got nothing that I had asked for,<br \/>\nbut eveything that I had hoped for.<br \/>\nAlmost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered;<br \/>\nI am, among all men, most richly blessed.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><i>(unknown Confederate soldier)<\/i><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/download.yousendit.com\/89BA738D34B908DB\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/juno_magic\/pic\/000b0agg\" alt=\"The Blessing of Unanswered Prayers-Icon\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">(Click me! I am a song!)<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n&#8220;The Blessing&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivertribe.com\/\">&#8220;Rivertribe&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on &#8220;Dandy Lines&#8221; by tvvoodoo at stock.XCHANG. I asked for strength that I might achieve; I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health that I might do greater things; I was given &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/02\/december-2-the-blessing-of-unanswered-prayers\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,133],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junomagic","tag-advent-calendar","tag-advent-calendar-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}