{"id":3443,"date":"2023-12-22T06:52:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T06:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2023-12-22T07:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T07:01:49","slug":"advent-alphabet-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3443","title":{"rendered":"Advent Alphabet (T)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Copy-of-Tent-Twitter-Post.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Copy-of-Tent-Twitter-Post-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3464\" width=\"737\" height=\"414\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Widen the space of your TENT,<br>stretch out your hangings freely,<br>lengthen your ropes, make your pegs firm&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have always loved this text. The hope and possibility in the image of strengthening and expanding a tent have sustained me in some times of wilderness. In Isaiah Ch 54 these verses are preceded by a lament for Israel as a barren woman. Her fortunes are about to turn, she is going to need more space, she will be blessed with children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaiah now takes up the familiar refrain of Israel&#8217;s experience of exile, shame and abandonment and promises a future more blessed than could ever have been imagined. It&#8217;s God&#8217;s everlasting love and faithfulness (hesed) that makes this possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we hear this text in Advent we too are invited to widen the tent of our lives and to make space for God&#8217;s blessing. All of this is made possible through the wideness of God&#8217;s love, made flesh in Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we come to last few days of Advent, how is God calling you to make space for his blessing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Isaiah 54:1-10, Thursday, Week Three)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widen the space of your TENT,stretch out your hangings freely,lengthen your ropes, make your pegs firm&#8230; I have always loved this text. The hope and possibility in the image of strengthening and expanding a tent have sustained me in some times of wilderness. In Isaiah Ch 54 these verses are preceded by a lament for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Alphabet (T)&#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-3443","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\/3443","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=3443"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3443\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}