{"id":781,"date":"2023-05-31T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=781"},"modified":"2023-05-30T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T11:27:05","slug":"31st-may-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"31st May 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 124 \u201cThe trap is broken, we are free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first half of the year is always busy as it seems that most of the conferences and events we attend are squashed into this time, it often leaves me feeling a bit stressed as I try to fit everything in whilst supporting my centres.&nbsp; As I drove along the other day I realised that in trying to bring wellbeing to others, my own wellbeing was being compromised.&nbsp; My <strong>trap<\/strong> is trying to achieve perfection and forgetting that what we offer is meant to be simple and sustainable, I wonder what your trap is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having taken time over the last few days to attend to my own wellbeing and spending time with God, I already feel much calmer and just today have re-connected with some hosts who I haven\u2019t spoken to in a while which is an absolute joy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A prayer from A-Z of Wellbeing, Ruth Rice Pg262<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWait<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Lord<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Lord, this is so hard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You do not know<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How much I long<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see it happen straight away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh yes, I know<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How hard it is to wait<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hear you say<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve waited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am still waiting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For you to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slow down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Show up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And pray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To come to me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To stay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I wait for you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I will take the weight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in this waiting room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll be set free<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From every weight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While you wait.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 124 \u201cThe trap is broken, we are free.\u201d The first half of the year is always<\/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-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}