{"id":1006,"date":"2025-02-19T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:27:25","slug":"19th-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=1006","title":{"rendered":"19th February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 60 \u201cWith our God we shall do valiantly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To act valiantly means to be strong and courageous, this week\u2019s Psalm reminds us that we can do this with the help of God.&nbsp; I was not a courageous child, in fact I avoided any new and unfamiliar situation and was likely to panic when the spotlight fell on me \u2013 how things have changed!&nbsp; New learning and pushing my boundaries gives me life these days and I wonder how much I missed out on this in my younger years.&nbsp; My courage is most definitely God-given and I\u2019m thankful every day for the role that I have been given in later life.&nbsp; I am slowly realising that some of my old anxieties are still lurking in the background but I\u2019m better equipped to deal with them these days, I read these passages this morning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew 6:34 <em>\u201cSo don\u2019t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today\u2019s trouble is enough for today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 37:23-24<em>: \u201c<\/em><strong><em><sup>23&nbsp;<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>The&nbsp;<\/em><em>Lord<\/em><em>&nbsp;directs the steps of the godly.<\/em><em><br><\/em><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><em>He delights in every detail of their lives.<\/em><em><br><strong><sup>24&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>Though they stumble, they will never fall,<br><\/em><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><em>for the&nbsp;<\/em><em>Lord<\/em><em>&nbsp;holds them by the hand.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope these will be a comfort to you whether or not you are having an anxious day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 60 \u201cWith our God we shall do valiantly.\u201d To act valiantly means to be strong and courageous,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}