{"id":1760,"date":"2013-03-10T05:25:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2013-03-10T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T10:25:23","slug":"decide-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/03\/10\/decide-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Decide to live"},"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: #993366\"><strong> Psalm 32<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nPsalm 32\u00a0is a composition designed to teach one how to live well. In what ways is confession a part of your desire and hope to live a fulfilling life?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nO God, whose love never fails us, we will try not to hide from you the wrong we have done,\u00a0the\u00a0secrets we keep or the good we neglect. Our distance from you leaves us friendless and alone. Renew in us a sense of who you intend us to be. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>~ Stan Dueck, Director for Transforming Practices<\/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: #993366\"><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: #993366\">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: #993366\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #993366\">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\u00a0 Psalm 32 Question for reflection: Psalm 32\u00a0is a composition designed to teach one how to live well. In what ways is confession a part of your desire and hope to live a fulfilling life? Prayer for the day: O God, whose love never fails us, we will try not to hide from you 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":[266,478,560,687,698,921,988],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-confession","tag-fulfill","tag-hide","tag-lent","tag-live","tag-prayer","tag-renew"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","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=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}