{"id":1560,"date":"2013-02-14T05:18:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T10:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2013-02-14T05:18:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T10:18:34","slug":"paying-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/02\/14\/paying-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1525\" alt=\"Lent 2013 Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2013\/02\/Lent-2013-Cover.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"150\" \/><span style=\"color: #cc9999\"><strong>\u00a0 Acts 7:30-34<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #cc9999\">Question for reflection:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>What burning bushes have you ignored?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #cc9999\">Prayer for the day:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Creator of all that is, we too often move about the world oblivious to your activity. Forgive us when schedules and calendars guide our attention. Open our eyes and hearts to look for the places where you are at work. Teach us to look upon the world with eyes of faith so that we may take part fully in your redemption blooming around us.<br \/>\nAmen<\/p>\n<p>~ Josh Brockway, Director for Spiritual Life and Discipleship<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s L<\/em>enten devotional, <span style=\"color: #cc9999\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=practice+of+paying&amp;Search.x=8&amp;Search.y=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #cc9999\">The Practice of Paying Attention<\/span><\/a><\/span>, written by Dana Cassell, Minister of Youth Formation at the Manassas Church of the Brethren. <em>(Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #cc9999\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #cc9999\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in print and E-Book formats)\u00a0<em>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><\/em><\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 60px\">\u00a0<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Acts 7:30-34 Question for reflection: What burning bushes have you ignored? Prayer for the day: Creator of all that is, we too often move about the world oblivious to your activity. Forgive us when schedules and calendars guide our attention. Open our eyes and hearts to look for the places where you are at<\/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":[99,687,704,840,921],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-attention","tag-lent","tag-look","tag-oblivious","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","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=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}