{"id":833,"date":"2023-10-04T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=833"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T13:46:11","slug":"4th-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"4th October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 142 \u201cYou will deal bountifully with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this week\u2019s Psalm, David is mainly lamenting his circumstances, so the last verse is a bit of a surprise.&nbsp; He is saying that despite everything, God has not forgotten him and loves him with a deep love.&nbsp; It\u2019s good to know that even at our lowest point, God does not give up on us, it reminds me of the footsteps in the sand poem that became such a powerful comfort to me after my stroke:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em><em>One night I dreamed a dream.<br>As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.<br>Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.<br>For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,<br>One belonging to me and one to my Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>After the last scene of my life flashed before me,<br>I looked back at the footprints in the sand.<br>I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,<br>especially at the very lowest and saddest times,<br>there was only one set of footprints.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.<br>&#8220;Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,<br>You&#8217;d walk with me all the way.<br>But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,<br>there was only one set of footprints.<br>I don&#8217;t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He whispered, &#8220;My precious child, I love you and will never leave you<br>Never, ever, during your trials and testings.<br>When you saw only one set of footprints,<br>It was then that I carried you.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 142 \u201cYou will deal bountifully with me.\u201d In this week\u2019s Psalm, David is mainly lamenting his<\/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-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}