{"id":849,"date":"2023-11-08T05:53:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=849"},"modified":"2023-11-03T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T12:54:32","slug":"8th-november-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"8th November 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 147 \u201cHe heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next verses in this lovely psalm read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong><sup>4&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>He counts the stars<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and calls them all by name.<br><strong><sup>5&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>How great is our Lord! His power is absolute!<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;His understanding is beyond comprehension!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve looked up on a clear night (we don\u2019t have many of them in Rossendale!) the amount of stars is astonishing and God calls them all by name.&nbsp; I\u2019m sure you will know by now that \u201cnames, not labels.\u201d Is a phrase we use a lot in Renew Wellbeing and you may be horrified to know that some people can go for many days without hearing someone say their name which is why we put so much importance on it in our Renew spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Isaiah 43:1 it says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: \u201cFear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If God has called you by name to Renew Wellbeing, bless you for answering this call.&nbsp; You may be the only person to say someone\u2019s name that week and it may mean everything to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Meditation Verse: Psalm 147 \u201cHe heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds.\u201d The next verses in this<\/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-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}