{"id":1228,"date":"2012-12-13T04:21:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2012-12-13T04:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T09:21:19","slug":"bethlehem-o-little-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/13\/bethlehem-o-little-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem: O little town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-920\" title=\"Advent 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2012\/11\/Advent-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/><span style=\"color: #7651ae\"><strong>Micah 5:1-5<\/strong><em>a<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #7651ae\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhere have you glimpsed God&#8217;s grace in unexpected places?<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #7651ae\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nO, Holy One, you ordained that the Savior of the world would be born in the quiet town of Bethlehem. Though we read the scriptures, we are frequently surprised that you bring about grace in small places. Open our hearts and eyes as we prepare this season that we might look for your grace in the simplest of places.<br \/>\nAmen<\/p>\n<p>~ Josh Brockway, Director for Spiritual Life and Discipleship<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #7341be\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #7341be\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #7341be\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #7341be\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0in print and E-Book formats) Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Walt&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micah 5:1-5a Question for Reflection: Where have you glimpsed God&#8217;s grace in unexpected places? Prayer for the day: O, Holy One, you ordained that the Savior of the world would be born in the quiet town of Bethlehem. Though we read the scriptures, we are frequently surprised that you bring about grace in small places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,521,1125,1175],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-grace","tag-surprise","tag-unexpected"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}