{"id":1662,"date":"2013-02-25T04:54:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T09:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2013-02-25T04:54:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T09:54:39","slug":"patience-and-golden-calves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/02\/25\/patience-and-golden-calves\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience and golden calves"},"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\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Exodus 33:1- 6<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nSo what happens when you get a stiff neck? Do you stop responding to others around you, or are you simply more aware of the effort it takes to fully turn your body towards a sound? What does this mean for your journey with God?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nNever stop calling out to me, O God. If my neck grows too stiff for me to simply turn my head, forgive me &#8211; and then grant me strength to turn my whole self towards you.<\/p>\n<p>~ Becky Ullom Naugle, Director for Youth and Young Adult Ministry<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 120px\"><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: #800000\"><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: #800000\">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: #800000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Exodus 33:1- 6 Question for reflection: So what happens when you get a stiff neck? Do you stop responding to others around you, or are you simply more aware of the effort it takes to fully turn your body towards a sound? What does this mean for your journey with God? Prayer for the<\/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":[367,467,650,687,921,1109,1151],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-effort","tag-forgive","tag-journey","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-strength","tag-towards-god"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","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=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}