{"id":823,"date":"2023-09-20T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=823"},"modified":"2023-09-14T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T11:57:04","slug":"20th-september-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"20th September 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 140 \u201cWe shall dwell in your presence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I write this, I have just got back home after being on retreat with the Renew team in the Midlands.&nbsp; If you follow social media you will have seen that as well as spending quality time with God, we also had a lot of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the full day together, we were encouraged to spend time on our own listening to God which sounds a bit scary!&nbsp; I guess we were being invited to take time out from our normally busy lives to dwell in God\u2019s presence.&nbsp; I was challenged to think around just one word \u2013 even scarier!!&nbsp; But you know, just taking the time to slow down with calm thoughts and an open heart meant that I dialled down the noise inside my own head and could see the direction that God was trying to point me in for the first time in ages.&nbsp; So maybe what I\u2019m saying is that if we slow down, God will show up and we will be able to take notice! (Sound familiar?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 140 \u201cWe shall dwell in your presence.\u201d As I write this, I have just got back<\/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-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}