{"id":4404,"date":"2018-03-20T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:13:40","slug":"a-prayer-on-a-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharecatholic.com\/blog\/a-prayer-on-a-birthday","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer on a Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">O God, I thank you for giving me another year of life. I thank you for all the people who have remembered me today, who have sent me cards, and letters and good wishes and presents. I thank you for everything which I have been enabled by you to do and to be in the past year.\u00a0 I thank you for all the experiences of the past year, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">for the times of success which will always be happy memories; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">for times of failure which remind me of my own weakness and of my need of you; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">for times of joy when the sun was shining; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">for times of sorrow which drove me to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O God, I thank you for giving me another year of life. I thank you for all the people who have remembered me today, who have sent me cards, and letters and good wishes and presents. 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