{"id":964,"date":"2024-09-11T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=964"},"modified":"2024-09-05T10:54:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T10:54:03","slug":"11th-september-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"11th September 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 37 \u201cDwell in the land and befriend faithfulness\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The very first line of this Psalm is \u201cDo not fret\u201d. I am a world-class fretter, always have been probably always will be, it can just take one misinterpretation of an email and off I go!&nbsp; But we are encouraged by this week\u2019s Psalm not to fret, so should I fret about fretting or just try and calm down?&nbsp; It seems so obvious to rest in the Lord and be more faithful that everything is in His hands; so why is it so hard?&nbsp; I guess, if David found it easy not to fret this Psalm wouldn\u2019t be written and I think David had a lot more to worry about than I do!&nbsp; So, I encourage you this week to join me in recognising when the fretting starts and to learn to befriend faithfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faithful One, So Unchanging [with lyrics for congregations]\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JqK-UnsRTFI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 37 \u201cDwell in the land and befriend faithfulness\u201d The very first line of this Psalm is \u201cDo<\/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-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}