{"id":717,"date":"2023-01-25T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=717"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T11:46:07","slug":"25th-january-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"25<sup>th<\/sup> January 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 106 \u201cHe is good\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout my life so far, I have often made wrong decisions or reacted badly to situations, I am in no way perfect! I was mulling over some of this last night as I struggled to get to sleep and although I woke up feeling better having eventually dropped off, was still bothered this morning by thoughts that I could have done better in certain circumstances.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one who feels like this sometimes.&nbsp; As I have some free time this morning, I thought it would be nice to do some colouring in my journaling bible; I was drawn to the word \u2018forgiven\u2019 which took me to Psalm 103, the basis of our morning prayer; looking further down the psalm I read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong><sup>8&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>The&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;is compassionate and merciful,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.<br><strong><sup>9&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>He will not constantly accuse us,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;nor remain angry forever.<br><strong><sup>10&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>He does not punish us for all our sins;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.<br><strong><sup>11&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>For his unfailing love toward those who fear him<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.<br><strong><sup>12&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>He has removed our sins as far from us<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;as the east is from the west.<br><strong><sup>13&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>The&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;is like a father to his children,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;tender and compassionate to those who fear him.<br><strong><sup>14&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>For he knows how weak we are;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How good is our God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 106 \u201cHe is good\u201d Throughout my life so far, I have often made wrong decisions or<\/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-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}