{"id":1621,"date":"2013-02-21T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2013-02-21T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T10:36:00","slug":"reconciliation-before-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/02\/21\/reconciliation-before-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconciliation before celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"Lent\u00a0 <\/b><\/b>Genesis 13:1-7, 14-18<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span>
\nIf you\u2019re like me, when you hear reconciliation, you also hear confrontation. There is little that I, and a lot of other Brethren, fear more than confrontation. Worse than that is admitting that something was my fault. How do you overcome stubbornness or fears of confrontation–in yourself or in those you wish to reconcile with–in order to reach a mutual goal?<\/p>\n

Prayer for the day:<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Healing God, may we, this Lenten season, push past our fear of confrontation or our fear of being wrong to be able to reconcile with each other. Let us see an argument as merely an exchange of wits and not hold grudges. Whether it\u2019s over too many sheep on one land or someone\u2019s car parked the wrong way on the street, help us to solve our differences kindly as Lot and Abram before us.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

~ Rachel Witkovsky, National Junior High Conference Coordinator<\/p>\n

Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year’s L<\/em>enten devotional, The Practice of Paying Attention<\/span><\/a><\/span>, written by Dana Cassell, Minister of Youth Formation at the Manassas Church of the Brethren. (Available from\u00a0Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0in print and E-Book formats)\u00a0Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Walt’s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em>his\u00a0<\/em>blog.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Genesis 13:1-7, 14-18 Question for reflection: If you\u2019re like me, when you hear reconciliation, you also hear confrontation. There is little that I, and a lot of other Brethren, fear more than confrontation. Worse than that is admitting that something was my fault. How do you overcome stubbornness or fears of confrontation–in yourself or<\/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":[270,442,687,866,921,972,1076,1114],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-confront","tag-fear","tag-lent","tag-overcome","tag-prayer","tag-reconcile","tag-solve","tag-stubborn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","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=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}