{"id":1072,"date":"2025-05-07T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2025-05-04T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T16:50:22","slug":"7th-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"7th May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 71 \u201cYou will comfort me again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the key aims of a Renew space is to make visitors feel comfortable, this can be tricky during the winter in a cold and draughty church!&nbsp; I once visited a Renew prayer space in exactly this situation but creatively they had supplied a basket of prayer shawls.&nbsp; Not only would these knitted blankets offer the comfort of a little extra heat in a coldish place but the knitter had prayed over every stich so the wearer would be surrounded in the comfort of prayer.&nbsp; How lovely to think that God surrounds us with comfort when we need it most!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalm 125:2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em><em>As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.\u201d<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 71 \u201cYou will comfort me again.\u201d One of the key aims of a Renew space is to<\/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-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","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=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}