{"id":2313,"date":"2006-12-30T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/december-30-an-queenly-blessing"},"modified":"2009-01-18T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T12:00:35","slug":"december-30-an-queenly-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/december-30-an-queenly-blessing","title":{"rendered":"December 30 &#8211; An Queenly Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-cut text=\"A Queenly Blessing\"><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/juno_magic\/pic\/000f22b3\" alt=\"let us be kind\"><font size=\"1\">Based on &#8220;Enlightened Praise&#8221; by lumix2004 at stock.XCHANG. <\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Keep us, O God, from pettiness;<br \/>\nlet us be large in thought, in word, in deed.<br \/>\nLet us be done with faultfinding and leave off self-seeking.<br \/>\nMay we put away all pretenses and meet each other,<br \/>\nface to face, without self-pity and without prejudice.<br \/>\nMay we never be hasty in judgment and always generous.<br \/>\nLet us take time for all things;<br \/>\nmake us grow calm, serene, gentle.<br \/>\nTeach us to put in action our better impulses &#8211; straightforward and unafraid.<br \/>\nGrant that we may realize<br \/>\nit is the little things of life that create difficulties;<br \/>\nthat in the big things of life we are as one.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Lord, let us not forget to be kind.<\/p>\n<p>Amen. <\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"1\">(Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/download.yousendit.com\/558AA5F368B0C565\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/juno_magic\/pic\/000f3sx4\" alt=\"be kind - icon\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">(Click me! I am a song!)<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n&#8220;The Blessings&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwilliams.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dar Williams<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on &#8220;Enlightened Praise&#8221; by lumix2004 at stock.XCHANG. Keep us, O God, from pettiness; let us be large in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with faultfinding and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretenses &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/december-30-an-queenly-blessing\">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-2313","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\/2313","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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}