{"id":3641,"date":"2024-02-28T06:42:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T06:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2024-02-28T06:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T06:42:34","slug":"lent-alphabet-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3641","title":{"rendered":"Lent Alphabet (K)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Copy-of-Ask-and-it-shall-be-given-to-you-search-and-you-will-find.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Copy-of-Ask-and-it-shall-be-given-to-you-search-and-you-will-find-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3646\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KNOCK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ask and it shall be given to you; search, and you will find; KNOCK and the door will be opened to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asking, searching and knocking are all aspects of our life of prayer. Asking God for our own needs and the needs of others is something we learn from an early age. It is, of course, not without its problems. We don\u2019t always get what we ask for. Later in life we learn that our prayer may be answered in a way that we haven\u2019t anticipated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The searching element of prayer is something which unfolds and deepens throughout our lives. We might find ourselves searching for a way through a difficult situation, or searching for our path in life. The search never ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And sometimes our prayer takes us to a place where we arrive at a door and we need to knock. It\u2019s all relational. We reach out and knock and trust that a door will be opened. It takes courage to knock on a door. We may have been walking past a door for years and been afraid to knock. Or we may have told ourselves over and over again that there is no point in knocking because it&#8217;s unlikely that it will be answered. Lent gives us the chance to revisit those doors and to gather the courage to knock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are there doors on which you would like to knock this Lent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Matthew 7:7-12, Thursday after First Sunday of Lent)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KNOCK Ask and it shall be given to you; search, and you will find; KNOCK and the door will be opened to you. Asking, searching and knocking are all aspects of our life of prayer. Asking God for our own needs and the needs of others is something we learn from an early age. It &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3641\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lent Alphabet (K)&#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-3641","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\/3641","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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}