{"id":1268,"date":"2012-12-15T04:33:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T09:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2012-12-15T04:33:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T09:33:31","slug":"the-inkeeper-no-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/15\/the-inkeeper-no-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The inkeeper: No room?"},"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: #6753de\"><strong>Luke 2:6-7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6753de\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhen have you opened the door to share the hospitality to stranger or friend?<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6753de\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nChrist of the manger, we set our stable scenes with your image, wrapped in simple cloth. We even sing songs of your birth, heralding closed doors that sent you to that stable. With each nativity song we are reminded that <em>even still<\/em> a door was opened. Grant us courage to open our doors to those seeking warmth and welcome. For in doing so, we might take part in your ever increasing grace.<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: #0384fb\"><span style=\"color: #6753de\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #6753de\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #6753de\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #6753de\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a>\u00a0i<\/span>n 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>Luke 2:6-7 Question for Reflection: When have you opened the door to share the hospitality to stranger or friend? Prayer for the day: Christ of the manger, we set our stable scenes with your image, wrapped in simple cloth. We even sing songs of your birth, heralding closed doors that sent you to that stable.<\/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":[54,223,284,343,521,581,797,1206],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christ","tag-courage","tag-door","tag-grace","tag-hospitality","tag-nativity","tag-welcome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","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=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}