{"id":272,"date":"2006-10-01T20:19:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T01:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/2006\/10\/01\/god-bless-me\/"},"modified":"2006-10-01T20:26:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T01:26:03","slug":"god-bless-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/2006\/10\/01\/god-bless-me\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to church today! It was the annual &#8220;Blessing of the Animals&#8221; for St. Francis of Assisi, Patron Saint of Animals and the Environment.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"church1.JPG\" id=\"image276\" src=\"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/church1.JPG\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It was a beautiful day for a blessing on the hillside with the snow covered mountain peaks in the background. There were lots of people and dogs, and cats, and I saw one mouse, and even one horse!!I was very well-behaved during the ceremony and the prayer:<br \/>\nGracious God, Thank you for blessing our lives with animals.<br \/>\nTender of heart and pure in soul,<br \/>\nthey touch us in so many ways.<br \/>\nCommitment, unconditional love, faith and forgiveness,<br \/>\ninherent traits never questioned nor compromised,<br \/>\nyet shared and bequeathed freely<br \/>\nupon any and all who offer them the same.<br \/>\nIt is with animals that we are taught tolerance and diversity,<br \/>\nfor their uniqueness serves to brighten our existence.<br \/>\nThey are an incomparable gift from God,<br \/>\none that we open and rediscover daily,<br \/>\nshowing us how to make the world a little better,<br \/>\nand our society a bit more humane.<br \/>\nGod, thank you for blessing our lives with animals.<br \/>\nFor it is within these divine creatures that we rediscover<br \/>\nthe true meanings of your teachings and infinite wisdom. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" id=\"image274\" alt=\"blessing3.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/blessing3.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/>I got blessed by a Pastor, I got a St. Francis medal, then I got cookies! It was a religious experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to church today! It was the annual &#8220;Blessing of the Animals&#8221; for St. Francis of Assisi, Patron Saint of Animals and the Environment. It was a beautiful day for a blessing on the hillside with the snow covered mountain peaks in the background. There were lots of people and dogs, and cats, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kyliedog.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}