{"id":1481,"date":"2013-01-06T04:22:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T09:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2013-01-06T04:22:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T09:22:50","slug":"us-shining-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/01\/06\/us-shining-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Us: Shining together"},"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>John 1:1-9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Question for Reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nInto what situation are you being called to carry the light of the Holy Spirit?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nOrder my steps and my actions in a way pleasing to you, Living God. May I not only carry the light of the Holy Spirit to others, but may I also be engulfed by it. Light my way, and grant me the wisdom to be able to share your light with others.<\/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>\u00a0<\/span>written by Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor of Manchester University. (Available from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a>\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>John 1:1-9 Question for Reflection: Into what situation are you being called to carry the light of the Holy Spirit? Prayer for the day: Order my steps and my actions in a way pleasing to you, Living God. May I not only carry the light of the Holy Spirit to others, but may I also<\/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":[54,571,693,1053],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-holy-spirit","tag-light","tag-share"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","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=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}