{"id":1476,"date":"2013-01-05T04:06:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T09:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2013-01-05T04:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T09:06:13","slug":"the-next-act-rainbow-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/01\/05\/the-next-act-rainbow-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"The next act: Rainbow connections"},"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: #800080\"><strong>Luke 3:15-18<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nRecognizing that a \u201csign of hope\u201d may appear much before the \u201creality of hope,\u201d what was the most recent \u201csign of hope\u201d you\u2019ve sensed?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nJesus I am grateful for the signs of hope you give me this day. Make my senses perceptive to your nudging. I pray for the ability to understand the ways in which you are encouraging me today!<\/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: #800080\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">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>Luke 3:15-18 Question for Reflection: Recognizing that a \u201csign of hope\u201d may appear much before the \u201creality of hope,\u201d what was the most recent \u201csign of hope\u201d you\u2019ve sensed? Prayer for the day: Jesus I am grateful for the signs of hope you give me this day. Make my senses perceptive to your nudging. I<\/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":[54,578,892,893,1060],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-hope","tag-perceive","tag-perceptive","tag-sign-of-hope"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","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=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}