{"id":4312,"date":"2024-12-22T06:39:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T06:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2024-12-22T06:39:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T06:39:23","slug":"advent-alphabet-v-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4312","title":{"rendered":"Advent Alphabet (V)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Valley-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Valley-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4313\" srcset=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Valley-2-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Valley-2-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Valley-2-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Valley-2-1536x864.png 1536w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Valley-2-1568x882.png 1568w, http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Valley-2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>VALLEY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Let every VALLEY be filled in, every mountain and hill be laid low&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Chapter 40 Isaiah announces with great urgency Judah&#8217;s triumphal return from exile in Babylon. What was once a valley will now be filled in. There will be no need to scale a mountain either as these will be laid low. Nothing is to bar the way of Judah&#8217;s joyful return to Jerusalem. On a newly built highway Judah will run like a runner in a race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judah has known the peaks and troughs in her relationship with God. She has been to the mountain top and seen God&#8217;s glory. She has sat despondent in the valley and doubted God&#8217;s presence. She has been brought so low that now it&#8217;s God&#8217;s initiative alone that will save her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we come near to the end of Advent can you look back and see your own valleys? <br>How has God filled in the valleys for you?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Isaiah 40:1-11, Tuesday, Week Two)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALLEY Let every VALLEY be filled in, every mountain and hill be laid low&#8230; In Chapter 40 Isaiah announces with great urgency Judah&#8217;s triumphal return from exile in Babylon. What was once a valley will now be filled in. There will be no need to scale a mountain either as these will be laid low. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Alphabet (V)&#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-4312","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\/4312","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=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/turveyabbey.org.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}