{"id":702,"date":"2011-11-09T19:28:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/?p=702"},"modified":"2011-11-09T20:34:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T20:34:33","slug":"language-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayables\/2011\/11\/language-of-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Language of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/309\/2011\/11\/WTheLanguageofLove-Prayer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-703\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/309\/2011\/11\/WTheLanguageofLove-Prayer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>Thanks be to You<br \/>\nfor semi-colons,<br \/>\nfor m-dashes, ellipses, and commas.<br \/>\nGlory be in the languages of Earth,<br \/>\nin Morse code and Braille,<br \/>\nin Swahili and Portuguese.<br \/>\nYou made us social beings,<br \/>\nthen gave us the gift that binds,<br \/>\nthat brings us together<br \/>\nin conversation, chatter, exclamation.<br \/>\nJoy comes from communication,<br \/>\nas does peace.<br \/>\nHelp us to use our words wisely and well.<\/p>\n<p>Lori Strawn, <a title=\"Prayables.com\" href=\"http:\/\/prayables.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Prayables<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><strong>READ MORE and Enjoy these features from the Daily Prayable! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2192 <a title=\"Daily Story\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/2011\/11\/funny-christians.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Story<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2192 <a title=\"Daily Scripture\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/2011\/11\/exodus-207.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Scripture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2192 <a title=\"Daily Prayer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/2011\/11\/language-of-love.html\">Daily Prayer<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2192 <a title=\"Daily Video\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/2011\/11\/christians-dont-have-curse-words.html\">Daily Video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2192 <a title=\"Daily Joke\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/2011\/11\/inspiring-music.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Chuckle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2192 <a title=\"Daily Quote\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/prayables\/2011\/11\/being-kind.html\">Daily Quote<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks be to You for semi-colons, for m-dashes, ellipses, and commas. Glory be in the languages of Earth, in Morse code and Braille, in Swahili and Portuguese. You made us social beings, then gave us the gift that binds, that brings us together in conversation, chatter, exclamation. Joy comes from communication, as does peace. Help&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,98,4],"tags":[348,68,188,349,77,350],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multifaith-prayers","category-prayer-poetry-2","category-prayers","tag-favorite-prayer","tag-lori-strawn","tag-multifaith-prayer","tag-prayer-about-speech","tag-prayer-poetry","tag-writers-prayer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Language of Love - Prayables<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayables\/2011\/11\/language-of-love.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Language of Love - Prayables\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thanks be to You for semi-colons, for m-dashes, ellipses, and commas. 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