{"id":2061,"date":"2013-12-07T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2013-12-07T04:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T09:00:55","slug":"when-god-moved-into-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/07\/when-god-moved-into-the-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"When God moved into the neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2011\" alt=\"2013 Advent good_news_hi_res\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-Advent-good_news_hi_res-e1384980706205.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" \/><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #242fda\"> John 1:14<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #242fda\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nJesus, help us to slow down and pay attention to what you\u2019re doing around us, so that we may re-organize our lives and be ready for the good news that you are bringing to our neighborhood. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #242fda\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhat new practices, patterns, or routines could you establish to help you \u201cpeel back the layers\u201d and see your neighborhood with new eyes? Or what might you give up in order to make time to pay attention?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Tim Heishman, National Youth Conference Coordinator<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #3333ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>written by Tim Harvey, pastor of Central Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3333ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #3333ff\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in print and E-Book formats). Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Tim&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 John 1:14 Prayer for the day: Jesus, help us to slow down and pay attention to what you\u2019re doing around us, so that we may re-organize our lives and be ready for the good news that you are bringing to our neighborhood. Amen. Question for reflection: What new practices, patterns, or routines could you<\/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":[54,228,515,806,881,918],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-good-news","tag-new-eyes","tag-pay-attention","tag-practices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","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=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}