{"id":1890,"date":"2013-03-29T04:28:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T09:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2013-03-29T04:28:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T09:28:52","slug":"graceful-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/03\/29\/graceful-obedience\/","title":{"rendered":"Graceful obedience"},"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: #cd853f\"> <strong>John 18:1\u201319:42<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cd853f\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat am I holding onto too tightly? What do I need to learn, experience, or do in order to live more trustingly with God?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cd853f\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHelp me let go, God, of everything that gets between me and you. Open me to experiences of grace. Compel me toward your promises. Usher me from death into life. Amen.<\/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: #cd853f\"><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: #cd853f\">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: #cd853f\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #cd853f\">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 John 18:1\u201319:42 Question for reflection: What am I holding onto too tightly? What do I need to learn, experience, or do in order to live more trustingly with God? Prayer for the day: Help me let go, God, of everything that gets between me and you. Open me to experiences of grace. Compel 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":[261,563,687,689,921,935,1167],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-compel","tag-hold","tag-lent","tag-let-go","tag-prayer","tag-promises","tag-trust"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","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=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}