{"id":2140,"date":"2013-12-13T04:03:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T09:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2013-12-13T04:03:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T09:03:19","slug":"maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/13\/maturity\/","title":{"rendered":"Maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  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-e1387221899383.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><span style=\"color: #8261a3\">\u00a0<strong> Luke 1:67- 80<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8261a3\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGod who hears the words of our hearts, help us make space for others to speak. And, in that space, give us the patience to truly listen to our sisters and brothers, even if it means leaving our own words unsaid. As we learn to listen, may those learnings also help us hear your voice more clearly, O God.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #8261a3\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHow might becoming better listeners \u201c<em>guide our feet into the way of peace<\/em>\u201d (v. 79) more readily than making sure our own words are heard?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Donna Kline, Director of Denominational Deacon Ministry<\/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: #8261a3\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #8261a3\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>written by Tim Harvey, pastor of Central Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #8261a3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #8261a3\">Brethren Press<\/span><\/a><\/span>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Luke 1:67- 80 Prayer for the day: God who hears the words of our hearts, help us make space for others to speak. And, in that space, give us the patience to truly listen to our sisters and brothers, even if it means leaving our own words unsaid. As we learn to listen, may<\/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":[54,228,552,696,879,1226],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-hear","tag-listen","tag-patience","tag-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","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=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}