{"id":1721,"date":"2013-03-05T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2013-03-05T05:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T10:00:56","slug":"lift-up-your-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/03\/05\/lift-up-your-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift up your hearts"},"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: #3b2785\"><strong>Romans 2:12-16<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3b2785\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWho do you know that lives outside of a faith community but seems to follow the ways of Jesus better than many Christians? How might you develop a relationship with them?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3b2785\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod of mystery, you often choose interesting people to do your work. Help me to see you in everyone, to hear your voice in places I don\u2019t expect it.<\/p>\n<p>~ Donna Kline, Director of Denominational Deacon Ministry<\/p>\n<address style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><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: #3b2785\"><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: #3b2785\">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: #3b2785\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3b2785\">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 Romans 2:12-16 Question for reflection: Who do you know that lives outside of a faith community but seems to follow the ways of Jesus better than many Christians? How might you develop a relationship with them? Prayer for the day: God of mystery, you often choose interesting people to do your work. Help me<\/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":[257,458,687,781,864,921,983],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-community","tag-follow","tag-lent","tag-mystery","tag-outside","tag-prayer","tag-relationship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","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=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}