{"id":5498,"date":"2024-04-04T02:45:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2024-04-04T02:45:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:45:37","slug":"a-desperate-wait-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/04\/a-desperate-wait-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A DESPERATE  WAIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, And in His word I do hope. Psa 130:6 My soul waits for the Lord More than those who watch for the morning &#8212; I say, more than those who watch for the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Working the night shift is wearisome. Its usually  long, dark, dreary, gloomy lonely,cheerless and at times chilly . The guards are always the hardest hit for many are devoid of shelter ,security,warmth and companion. It&#8217;s at this point that they anxiously  long for the break of the day and  first ray of light so that  they  can be relieved .<\/p>\n<p>In his despair and out of depth, the Psalmist poured out a song of  ascent to the most High. In his cry ,he patiently and desperately waited for Him more that the guards long for the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The earnest upward gaze of the soul should be the desire of everyone &#8211; The suffering waiting for relieve,agitated souls waiting for calm,broken spirit waiting for mending,the aching waiting for balm and a contrite sinner for forgiveness. Such an inward wait need be the desire of everyone. *Psa 27:14 Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nPsa 5:3<br \/>\nPsa 40:1-3<br \/>\nIsa 8:17<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed Day \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psa 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, And in His word I do hope. Psa 130:6 My soul waits for the Lord More than those who watch for the morning &#8212; I say, more than those who watch for the morning. Working the night shift is wearisome. Its usually long, dark, dreary,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5500,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions\/5500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}