{"id":1441,"date":"2013-01-02T04:31:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2013-01-02T04:31:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T09:31:39","slug":"nazareth-rather-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/01\/02\/nazareth-rather-ordinary\/","title":{"rendered":"Galilee: Awash in inspiration"},"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: #993366\"><strong>Matthew 2:19-23<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat spot in nature near your home inspires you? Where is it that you see God in your town?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nCreator God, give me the discipline today to notice my surroundings. You speak to me through the wonders of nature and I want to be more aware of your presence in my surroundings, whatever they may be. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>~ Becky Ullom Naugle, Director of Youth &amp; Young Adult 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: #993366\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993366\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993366\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #993366\">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>Matthew 2:19-23 Question for Reflection: What spot in nature near your home inspires you? Where is it that you see God in your town? Prayer for the day: Creator God, give me the discipline today to notice my surroundings. You speak to me through the wonders of nature and I want to be more aware<\/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":[54,106,510,830,1222],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-aware","tag-gods-presence","tag-notice","tag-wonder"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","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=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}