{"id":747,"date":"2023-02-08T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=747"},"modified":"2023-02-28T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:11:35","slug":"8th-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"8th March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 112 \u201cLight dawns in the darkness\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we start to see signs of spring, my heart jumps when I see a daffodil or a crocus that has just pushed its way through the earth and up into the light.&nbsp; The bulbs that have lain dormant over the winter now burst into life!&nbsp; It can sometimes be a bit like this in some Renew spaces, the host team faithfully turn up for a few months, wondering if anyone will notice that they are being present when suddenly there is a breakthrough, one person leads to another and the word spreads in the local area.&nbsp; To be honest, the demand for our Renew spaces is generally quite high at the moment after the past few difficult years but each situation is different; maybe now is the time to raise awareness of what your Renew space has to offer, could you have a spring special, where everyone is invited to plant bulbs to take home with them?&nbsp; There\u2019s lots of Easter resources in the shops, maybe Easter wreaths might be a nice group activity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep being present, being prayerful and working on partnerships.&nbsp; There is a weekly host zoom with Ruth every Tuesday morning if you want to pick up tips from other Renew spaces, email Mandy or me for the zoom code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galatians 6:9 \u201cLet us not become weary in doing good,&nbsp;for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 112 \u201cLight dawns in the darkness\u201d As we start to see signs of spring, my heart<\/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-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}