{"id":1809,"date":"2013-03-17T04:33:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T09:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2013-03-17T04:33:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T09:33:06","slug":"by-way-of-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/03\/17\/by-way-of-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"By way of sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: #ff00ff\"><strong><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: #8aab3f\">Psalm 126<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8aab3f\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat are the things you dream of? What are the things that make you laugh? What are the things that give you joy? How would your life be changed, if during this season of Lent, your dreams, laughter, and joy reflected the Lord?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8aab3f\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nLord, who knows my dreams, thank you for turning my sorrows into joy.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n<p>~ Gimbiya Kettering, Intercultural Ministries Coordinator<\/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: #8aab3f\"><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: #8aab3f\">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: #8aab3f\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #8aab3f\">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 126 Question for reflection: What are the things you dream of? What are the things that make you laugh? What are the things that give you joy? How would your life be changed, if during this season of Lent, your dreams, laughter, and joy reflected the Lord? Prayer for the day: Lord, who<\/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":[348,651,687,921,1080],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-dream","tag-joy","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-sorrow-to-joy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","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=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}