{"id":3089,"date":"2015-01-05T05:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T13:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2016-10-10T13:11:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:11:54","slug":"prayer-for-teachers-and-students-returning-to-school-after-christmas-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/prayer-for-teachers-and-students-returning-to-school-after-christmas-break","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Teachers and Students Returning to School After Christmas Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/School-in-Winter-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"School in Winter\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/School-in-Winter-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/School-in-Winter-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/School-in-Winter-900x675.jpg 900w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/School-in-Winter.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Heavenly Father,<br \/>\nThank you for the blessings of this Christmas Break.<\/p>\n<p>Since last we gathered in this classroom,<br \/>\nwe celebrated the birth of your Son,<br \/>\nwe rang in a brand new year,<br \/>\nand we watched the magi give their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.<\/p>\n<p>As we meet in school again,<br \/>\nhelp us celebrate your Son&#8217;s presence in every moment of every day;<br \/>\ninspire us to use this new year to draw closer to you;<br \/>\nand grant us the desire to give our most precious gifts to those in need.<\/p>\n<p>Give us the energy, enthusiasm, and strength<br \/>\nto withstand the doldrums of January, February, and March,<br \/>\nso that when Spring Break comes,<br \/>\nthe hard work we have done<br \/>\nwill blossom into new achievements, successes, and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Grant this through Christ your Son,<br \/>\nthe Light of the World,<br \/>\nthe hope of the new year,<br \/>\nand your most precious gift to us.<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavenly Father, Thank you for the blessings of this Christmas Break. Since last we gathered in this classroom, we celebrated the birth of your Son, we rang in a brand new year, and we watched the magi give their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. As we meet in school again, help us celebrate your Son&#8217;s presence in every moment of every day; inspire us to use this new year to draw closer to you; and grant us the desire to give our most precious gifts to those&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[366,571],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer","category-teaching","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-break"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/School-in-Winter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-NP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}