{"id":2949,"date":"2023-05-22T05:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2023-05-22T05:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:46:56","slug":"monday-seventh-week-of-easter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2949","title":{"rendered":"Monday, Seventh Week of Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/spring-1536x864-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/spring-1536x864-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2950\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John 16:29-33<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I am not alone,<br>because the Father is with me.<br>I have told you all this<br>so that you may find peace in me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How often have you prayed for someone that they may find peace? Perhaps someone might have to make a difficult decision or comes to terms with a difficult some difficult circumstances: we wish them peace. It\u2019s possible to wish for others what we cannot find ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Jesus is getting ready to leave his disciples his wish is that they may find peace. This won\u2019t mean that they will avoid conflict or challenge. Instead they will find an inner strength in knowing that Jesus and the Father are one. Hidden in the tidy prose of John\u2019s Gospel is the stark fact the disciples don\u2019t know how things will turn out for them. They have been schooled in love by Jesus and promised the Spirit. Now it\u2019s up to them to let the promises unfold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What sense do you have of the peace that Jesus promises?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 16:29-33 I am not alone,because the Father is with me.I have told you all thisso that you may find peace in me. How often have you prayed for someone that they may find peace? Perhaps someone might have to make a difficult decision or comes to terms with a difficult some difficult circumstances: we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday, Seventh Week of Easter&#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-2949","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\/2949","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=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}