{"id":1779,"date":"2013-03-13T04:52:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T09:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2013-03-13T04:52:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T09:52:58","slug":"1779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/03\/13\/1779\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarcity and abundance"},"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\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #962b76\"><strong> 2 Kings 4:1-7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #962b76\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhere are there signs of abundance in your congregation and life that offer hope and vitality?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #962b76\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nLord God, help us to care for one another and for your world. Remove our fear and tendencies to assume scarcity.\u00a0You are the one from whom every family in heaven and\u00a0earth takes its name. We pray, O God, that according to the riches of your grace\u00a0we may be strengthened in our inner being to be vessels of your abundance and grace.<\/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: #962b76\"><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: #962b76\">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<span style=\"color: #962b76\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #962b76\">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\u00a0\u00a0 2 Kings 4:1-7 Question for reflection: Where are there signs of abundance in your congregation and life that offer hope and vitality? Prayer for the day: Lord God, help us to care for one another and for your world. Remove our fear and tendencies to assume scarcity.\u00a0You are the one from whom every family<\/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":[45,197,578,687,921,1109,1189],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-abundance","tag-care","tag-hope","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-strength","tag-vitality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","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=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}