{"id":1351,"date":"2015-05-10T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/a-prayer-for-a-happy-mothers-day.html"},"modified":"2015-05-10T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T17:23:00","slug":"a-prayer-for-a-happy-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/05\/a-prayer-for-a-happy-mothers-day.html","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for a happy Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here they are, a sizable part of why I wake up in the morning. \u00a0May God bless them half as much as they bless me,<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-OeBkGIe5jyo\/VU_Lrfg3S1I\/AAAAAAAAGPA\/_Tmz8UFfbrI\/s1600\/mothers%20day%20pics.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/715\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-OeBkGIe5jyo\/VU_Lrfg3S1I\/AAAAAAAAGPA\/_Tmz8UFfbrI\/s400\/mothers%20day%20pics.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of prayers, my wife received a call from McGraw Hill, possibly getting an interview for the job she had. \u00a0At the same pay! \u00a0Yes, it would be contract rather than permanent, but right now, that would be like water to a dying man in the desert. \u00a0We at least would be back to surviving even with our heads slightly above water. \u00a0Something we\u2019ve not known for these going on seven years. \u00a0So prayers for that would be 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