{"id":1874,"date":"2013-03-27T04:09:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T09:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2013-03-27T04:09:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T09:09:39","slug":"single-mindedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/03\/27\/single-mindedness\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-mindedness"},"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: #4b78ff\"><strong> I<span style=\"color: #498ade\">saiah 50:4-9<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #498ade\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat does silence mean to you? When is the last time you practiced the art of being silent? How will you listen for God today?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #498ade\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<i>&lt;take a deep breath&gt; &lt;exhale&gt; &lt;inhale&gt; &lt;exhale&gt; &lt;inhale&gt; &lt;hold\u2026&gt; &lt;exhale&gt; &lt;breathe regularly&gt; &lt;be silent&gt; &lt;listen&gt;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>~ Jonathan Shively, executive director, Congregational Life Ministries<\/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: #498ade\"><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: #498ade\">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: #1c77ba\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #1c77ba\">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, Dana&#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 Isaiah 50:4-9 Question for reflection: What does silence mean to you? When is the last time you practiced the art of being silent? How will you listen for God today? Prayer for the day: &lt;take a deep breath&gt; &lt;exhale&gt; &lt;inhale&gt; &lt;exhale&gt; &lt;inhale&gt; &lt;hold\u2026&gt; &lt;exhale&gt; &lt;breathe regularly&gt; &lt;be silent&gt; &lt;listen&gt; ~ Jonathan Shively, executive director,<\/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":[146,687,696,921,1062,1063],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-breathe","tag-lent","tag-listen","tag-prayer","tag-silence","tag-silent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","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=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}