{"id":2488,"date":"2023-02-25T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2023-02-25T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T07:00:08","slug":"saturday-after-ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2488","title":{"rendered":"Saturday after Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The-Lord-will-always-guide-you-giving-you-relief-in-desert-places.-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The-Lord-will-always-guide-you-giving-you-relief-in-desert-places.-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2489\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isaiah 58:9-14\u00a0<\/strong><br><strong>Luke 5:27-32<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;<strong>The Lord will always guide you, giving you relief in desert places.<br>He will give strength to your bones and you shall be like a watered garden,<br>like a spring of water whose waters never run dry.<\/strong>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s reading from Isaiah repeats some of yesterday&#8217;s text and it too ends on a hopeful note. I hear in Isaiah&#8217;s words the motif of the covenantal bond between God and Israel. While the demands are high and far reaching for Israel, God promises to sustain them  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah\u2019s words were originally for a people in exile. He holds out the hope of their triumphant return to their own land. This will need a change in political fortunes and also a change in their hearts and minds. If they can make this change they are promised strength in their bones and relief from what has been the &#8216;desert&#8217; of their lives in exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you hear God\u2019s promise today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 58:9-14\u00a0Luke 5:27-32 &#8216;The Lord will always guide you, giving you relief in desert places.He will give strength to your bones and you shall be like a watered garden,like a spring of water whose waters never run dry.&#8216; Today&#8217;s reading from Isaiah repeats some of yesterday&#8217;s text and it too ends on a hopeful note. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday after Ash Wednesday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monastic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}