{"id":2208,"date":"2013-12-22T04:50:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2013-12-22T04:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T09:50:26","slug":"more-challenging-than-we-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/22\/more-challenging-than-we-imagine\/","title":{"rendered":"More challenging than we imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong><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-e1387468556566.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"252\" \/>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #9451ae\">Luke 2:7<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #9451ae\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nO God, who came in the vulnerability of a child, we so often sing of silent and restful nights as we celebrate Jesus\u2019 birth. We confess that all too often we fail to imagine what the peacefulness of that night has to say to the\u00a0madness of our day. Open our eyes to the grace of the nativity in our everyday lives. Amen<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #9451ae\">Question for reflection:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nWhere have you seen the peace and calm of the infant Jesus in the past few weeks?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Josh Brockway, Director for Spiritual Life and Discipleship<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s <strong><span style=\"color: #9451ae\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #9451ae\">Advent Devotional<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>written by Tim Harvey, pastor of Central Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #9451ae\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #9451ae\">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 2:7 Prayer for the day: O God, who came in the vulnerability of a child, we so often sing of silent and restful nights as we celebrate Jesus\u2019 birth. We confess that all too often we fail to imagine what the peacefulness of that night has to say to the\u00a0madness of our day.<\/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":[54,228,606,797,882,921],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-infant-jesus","tag-nativity","tag-peace","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","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=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}