{"id":86,"date":"2007-02-02T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/02\/02\/back_to_prayer\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T13:40:19","slug":"back_to_prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/02\/02\/back_to_prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/douai.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/blog\/images\/douai.html','popup','width=428,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\/douai-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" alt=\"\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" border=0\/><\/a>Last weekend Shirley and I spend a quiet afternoon up at Douai Abbey near Reading.  We&#8217;re trying to build more of a rhythm of quiet days into our routine, and the evidence that we&#8217;re not quite there yet was displayed by the entry in her diary, conspicuously missing from mine!  Thankfully I&#8217;d not managed to double book us, so we drove up to the Abbey on the beautifully crisp and sunny Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWe spent our two and a half hours in the Abbey in silence &#8211; mostly sat on opposite sides of the Abbey next to the only two radiators in the building!  I&#8217;d had a hectic week at 24-7, and I really needed to rest in the Lord.  Thankfully He knows what we need even before we do, and I had a wonderful sense of His peace as I meditated on Him for our first our of prayer.<br \/>\nAfter that I moved on to intercession, and my prayers flowed easily as I brought friends, family and ministry to Him.  As afternoon moved to evening, the Abbey became dark but neither Shirley or I cared one bit; we were in deep communion with Jesus.<br \/>\nThis week has definitely benefited from my time with the Lord at the weekend.  All I need to do now is to get this depth of peace and assurance into my pattern of everyday living&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend Shirley and I spend a quiet afternoon up at Douai Abbey near Reading. We&#8217;re trying to build more of a rhythm of quiet days into our routine, and the evidence that we&#8217;re not quite there yet was displayed by the entry in her diary, conspicuously missing from mine! Thankfully I&#8217;d not managed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/2007\/02\/02\/back_to_prayer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Back to prayer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curve.org.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}