{"id":15643,"date":"2015-06-14T18:55:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T17:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/?p=15643"},"modified":"2015-06-14T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T17:55:56","slug":"some-samson-shaped-shipyard-sourced-spiritual-succour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2015\/some-samson-shaped-shipyard-sourced-spiritual-succour\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Samson-Shaped Shipyard-Sourced Spiritual Succour&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;courtesy of BBC Radio Ulster&#8217;s \u00a0Sunday morning service &#8211; which I had the privilege of hosting this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Listen in on iPlayer <a href=\"http:\/\/bbc.in\/1MArgM2\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1802.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2015\/some-samson-shaped-shipyard-sourced-spiritual-succour\/img_1802\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1802.jpg?fit=1792%2C612&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1792,612\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1432062387&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.12&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000755857898715&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1802\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1802.jpg?fit=300%2C102&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1802.jpg?fit=940%2C321&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1802.jpg?resize=940%2C321\" alt=\"IMG_1802\" width=\"940\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1802.jpg?w=1792&amp;ssl=1 1792w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1802.jpg?resize=300%2C102&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_1802.jpg?resize=1024%2C350&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and if you can&#8217;t cope with listening to something with no moving pictures for 45 whole minutes, I guess this is the crunch:<\/p>\n<p><em>So &#8211; trust. God is in control. Even as you\u2019re listening to the radio this morning, clench your fist to represent anything you\u2019re clutching too tightly &#8211; desire for revenge, resentment, hatred, unforgiveness, a sense of being hard-done-by &#8211; and now slowly unclench your fist, open out your hand and spread out your fingers. These things are yours, Lord. I can\u2019t hold on to them any more &#8211; they\u2019re killing me. I don\u2019t want to make Samson\u2019s mistake and try to solve them myself. I trust you. I trust in your wrath as well as your love. I trust that with you there is justice as well as mercy. I trust that i can leave all the situations that are out of my control in your hands.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;courtesy of BBC Radio Ulster&#8217;s \u00a0Sunday morning service &#8211; which I had the privilege of hosting this morning. 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Even as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2015\/some-samson-shaped-shipyard-sourced-spiritual-succour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some Samson-Shaped Shipyard-Sourced Spiritual Succour&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Some Samson-Shaped Shipyard-Sourced Spiritual Succour... - The DOCK - Life in the Titanic Quarter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-dock.org\/blog\/2015\/some-samson-shaped-shipyard-sourced-spiritual-succour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some Samson-Shaped Shipyard-Sourced Spiritual Succour... - The DOCK - Life in the Titanic Quarter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8230;courtesy of BBC Radio Ulster&#8217;s \u00a0Sunday morning service &#8211; which I had the privilege of hosting this morning. 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