{"id":1351,"date":"2012-12-21T04:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T09:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2012-12-21T04:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T09:52:42","slug":"simeon-waiting-on-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/21\/simeon-waiting-on-the-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"Simeon: Waiting on the Lord"},"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: #6349b5\"><strong>Luke 2:25-32<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6349b5\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nDo you take God\u2019s promises as seriously as Simeon did? Can others take <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">your<\/span> promises seriously?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6349b5\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nO God, your promises are for all of us, and for each of us. Your promises are full of hope, a hope that shines for us now as we anticipate the birth of Jesus, a hope that shines for us always in the presence of your Spirit.<br \/>\nAmen<\/p>\n<p>~ Donna Kline, Director of Denominational Deacon Ministry<\/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: #6349b5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #6349b5\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #6349b5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #6349b5\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in 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 2:25-32 Question for Reflection: Do you take God\u2019s promises as seriously as Simeon did? Can others take your promises seriously? Prayer for the day: O God, your promises are for all of us, and for each of us. Your promises are full of hope, a hope that shines for us now as we anticipate<\/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":[54,578,935],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-hope","tag-promises"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}