{"id":1698,"date":"2013-03-02T05:09:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T10:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2013-03-02T05:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T10:09:15","slug":"good-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/03\/02\/good-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Good fruit"},"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<strong> Luke 6:43-45<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<br \/>\n<\/strong>What fruit has the tree of your life produced so far? What budding shoots are you tending for tomorrow\u2019s crop?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><br \/>\nGod of all creation, let others hear only words of good fruit from my mouth, and share in acts of grace from my heart and hands.<\/p>\n<p>~ Donna Kline, Director of Denominational Deacon 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=practice+of+paying&amp;Search.x=8&amp;Search.y=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Practice of Paying Attention<\/a>, written by Dana Cassell, Minister of Youth Formation at the Manassas Church of the Brethren. <em>(Available from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\">Brethren Press<\/a>\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<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Luke 6:43-45 Question for reflection: What fruit has the tree of your life produced so far? What budding shoots are you tending for tomorrow\u2019s crop? Prayer for the day: God of all creation, let others hear only words of good fruit from my mouth, and share in acts of grace from my heart and<\/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":[475,521,687,921],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-fruit","tag-grace","tag-lent","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","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=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}