{"id":1357,"date":"2012-12-22T04:05:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T09:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2012-12-22T04:05:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T09:05:37","slug":"mary-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/12\/22\/mary-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary: Motherhood"},"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: #3366ff\"><strong>Luke 2:33-35<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHow is it that children teach their elders about life? What have you learned through the eyes of a child?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod, the promise of a new baby is one of your signs of hope in this world. But that hope is challenged daily, sometimes through deep sorrow like what we feel for the children and families of Newtown, Connecticut. Thank you for sharing in our grief. Grant us peace and courage through the rising and the falling of our daily living. We, like Mary, covet your blessing.\u00a0 With expectation we pray, amen.<\/p>\n<p>~ Jonathan Shively, executive director, Congregational Life Ministries<\/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: #3366ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">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 2:33-35 Question for Reflection: How is it that children teach their elders about life? What have you learned through the eyes of a child? Prayer for the day: God, the promise of a new baby is one of your signs of hope in this world. But that hope is challenged daily, sometimes through deep<\/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":[54,110,218,284,578,811],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-baby","tag-children","tag-courage","tag-hope","tag-newtown-connecticut"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}