{"id":2339,"date":"2022-02-16T21:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T03:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2022-02-16T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T03:50:37","slug":"st-albans-daily-february-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=2339","title":{"rendered":"St. Alban&#8217;s Daily &#8211; February 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><\/tr><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/29215f3d-cbf4-4954-9b22-4c24d9ae4af4.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br><strong>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal Church<\/strong><br><strong>Bolivar, Missouri<\/strong><br><strong>Wednesday, February 16<\/strong><br><br><strong>Psalm 37:1-12, 41-42<\/strong><br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"205\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/b05e16bf-cb35-457b-b02e-14fbebe430e7.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><br><strong>Psalm 37:1-12, 41-42<\/strong><br>Do not fret yourself because of evildoers; do not be jealous of those who do wrong.<br>For they shall soon wither lie the grass, and like the green grass fade away.<br>Put your trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and feed on its riches.<br>Take delight in the Lord, and he shall give you your heart&#8217;s desire.<br>Commit your way to the Lord and put your trust in him, and he will bring it to pass.<br>He will make your righteousness as clear as the light and your just dealings as the noonday.<br>Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.<br>Do not fret yourself over the one who prospers,the one who succeeds in evil schemes.<br><br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/b7e42af1-5104-495e-b11f-c88d7a5a0713.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><br><br>Refrain from anger, leave rage alone; do not fret yourself, it only leads to evil.<br>For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait upon the Lord shall possess the land.<br>In a little while the wicked shall be no more; you shall search out their place, but they will not be there.<br>But the lowly shall possess the land; they will delight in the abundance of peace.<br>But the deliverance of the righteous comes from the Lord; he is their stronghold in time of trouble.<br>The Lord will help them and rescue them; he will rescue them from the wicked and deliver them,because they seek refuge in him.<br><br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"178\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/9ef8937f-a5b2-4fc6-b041-7385c38d66ae.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br>Is this true? Does it make sense? Is it your experience?<br>And what does the psalmist mean when he writes, &#8220;Take delight in the Lord?&#8221;<br>If we &#8220;delight&#8221; in God does that mean that our desires change? <br>If so &#8211; is that why God will gives us those desires? <br>Because they are also God&#8217;s?<br>Does anger, rage, really lead only to evil?<br><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal ChurchBolivar, MissouriWednesday, February 16 Psalm 37:1-12, 41-42 Psalm 37:1-12, 41-42Do not fret yourself because of evildoers; do not be jealous of those who do wrong.For they shall soon wither lie the grass, and like the green grass fade away.Put your trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}