{"id":986,"date":"2024-10-23T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T06:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=986"},"modified":"2024-10-15T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:54:12","slug":"23rd-october-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"23rd October 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 43 \u201cSend out your light and your truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent weeks I have been drawn back over and again to Psalm 23, this week\u2019s verse sits side by side with Psalm 23:4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><sup>\u201c4&nbsp;<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><em>Even when I walk<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;through the darkest valley,<br>I will not be afraid,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for you are close beside me.<br>Your rod and your staff<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;protect and comfort me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we were walking through a very dark valley, physically and metaphorically, light and truth would be a welcome companion.&nbsp; I am not immune to the occasional dark day, in the past I would have let the worries consume me but I now know to pause, go back to my routine of a coffee, Bible reading and morning prayer and things seem a little lighter and easier to deal with.&nbsp; Give it a go, it really helps to re-centre your day and our prayer resources can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renewwellbeing.org.uk\/get-involved\">https:\/\/www.renewwellbeing.org.uk\/get-involved<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation Verse: Psalm 43 \u201cSend out your light and your truth.\u201d In recent weeks I have been drawn back over<\/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-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}