{"id":1577,"date":"2013-02-16T05:44:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T10:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2013-02-16T05:44:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T10:44:59","slug":"children-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/02\/16\/children-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of Light"},"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: #008080\"><strong>\u00a0 John 12:27-36<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat symbols of light are around you? What qualities of God&#8217;s light do they bring to mind?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">Prayer for the day:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Lord of light, we long to be in the light as you are in the light. As the sun shifts in the sky above us we give thanks for the light that warms flesh and bone, and the light that touches heart and mind. As we move into the seasons of increasing light, free our minds from the darkness of doubt and despair so that we might be sources of your light to those 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: #008080\"><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: #008080\">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: #008080\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #008080\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0in 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 John 12:27-36 Question for reflection: What symbols of light are around you? What qualities of God&#8217;s light do they bring to mind? Prayer for the day: Lord of light, we long to be in the light as you are in the light. As the sun shifts in the sky above us we give thanks<\/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":[303,687,693,921],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-darkness","tag-lent","tag-light","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}