{"id":164,"date":"2008-01-12T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2008\/01\/12\/the_sign\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T11:47:12","slug":"the_sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2008\/01\/12\/the_sign\/","title":{"rendered":"The sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/ForburyRainbowMedium.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/ForburyRainbowMedium.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/ForburyRainbowMedium-thumb-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"ForburyRainbowMedium.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve mentioned it here before, but I&#8217;ve recently felt God calling me to start praying again down at the Abbey ruins here in Reading.&nbsp; So, right near the spot where we opened the Reading Boiler Room back in 2001, I&#8217;ve been lifting the people of my town to God, in prayer.<\/p>\n<p>At first sight yesterday was not the day to be out in the open praying.&nbsp; Rain was pouring out of the sky as rapidly as it could, but as Shirley and I stood praying, we were party to a magnificent rainbow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Genesis%206-9:17;&amp;version=31;\">Noah&#8217;s story<\/a> in Genesis that morning, and as we prayed, it was wonderful to be reminded of God&#8217;s covenant with all living things.&nbsp; We thanked Him, and prayed He would look on the people of Reading with a merciful heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve mentioned it here before, but I&#8217;ve recently felt God calling me to start praying again down at the Abbey ruins here in Reading.&nbsp; So, right near the spot where we opened the Reading Boiler Room back in 2001, I&#8217;ve been lifting the people of my town to God, in prayer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2008\/01\/12\/the_sign\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The sign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}