{"id":939,"date":"2024-06-12T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=939"},"modified":"2024-06-06T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:53:55","slug":"12th-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"12th June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 24 \u201cThe earth is the Lord\u2019s\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks ago Mark and I travelled to London to visit the Moon Landings &amp; Apollo immersive experience, during this we saw the famous earthrise photo taken from the moon.&nbsp; Never had our planet been seen by humans in this way before, and it was a moment where the environment of our precious earth became important to so many people.&nbsp; I like to imagine God gazing on our earth and each one of us on it like a loving parent.&nbsp; Remember the Sunday school song \u201cHe\u2019s got the whole world in His hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have time, read Psalm 104 for more on this theme:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong><sup>1&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>Bless the&nbsp;Lord, O my soul.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;O&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;my God, you are very great.<br>You are clothed with honour and majesty,<br><strong><sup>2&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;wrapped in light as with a garment.<br>You stretch out the heavens like a tent,<br><strong><sup>3&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;you set the beams of your<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20104&amp;version=NRSVA#fen-NRSVA-15575a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup>&nbsp;chambers on the waters,<br>you make the clouds your<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20104&amp;version=NRSVA#fen-NRSVA-15575b\">b<\/a>]<\/sup>&nbsp;chariot,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;you ride on the wings of the wind,<br><strong><sup>4&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>you make the winds your<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20104&amp;version=NRSVA#fen-NRSVA-15576c\">c<\/a>]<\/sup>&nbsp;messengers,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;fire and flame your<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20104&amp;version=NRSVA#fen-NRSVA-15576d\">d<\/a>]<\/sup>&nbsp;ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><sup>5&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>You set the earth on its foundations,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;so that it shall never be shaken.<br><strong><sup>6&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>You cover it with the deep as with a garment;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the waters stood above the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In times of struggle, remember the earth and everything on it are the Lord\u2019s, including you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 24 \u201cThe earth is the Lord\u2019s\u201d A few weeks ago Mark and I travelled to London to<\/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-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}