{"id":2260,"date":"2013-12-31T03:52:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T08:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2013-12-31T03:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T08:52:45","slug":"by-another-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2013\/12\/31\/by-another-road\/","title":{"rendered":"By another road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-Advent-good_news_hi_res-e1387468556566.jpg\" alt=\"2013 Advent good_news_hi_res\" width=\"180\" height=\"252\" \/>\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #993366\">Matthew 2:12<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe unfamiliar path is ahead \u2013and I need courage to continue though it may be longer, steeper, and overgrown. You know how I fear being lost even though you have promised to leave all the 99 sheep to find the lost one. Soften my heart O, God, that I may trust the direction you lay before me.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366\"> Question for reflection:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nIt can be hard to change our plans \u2013especially after we have so carefully plotted out our route and packed for the journey. Especially when explaining the reasons for the change has to do with the \u201cstill, small voice\u201d of God \u2013 the warning that comes as dream, not as a burning bush. Have you ever had to change your plans based on a call or feeling that you knew was divinely inspired, but could not explain in the moment? What did you learn on the other road? Where did it lead you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Gimbiya Kettering,\u00a0 Intercultural Ministries Coordinator<\/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: #993366\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=2013+advent+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993366\">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: #993366\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #993366\">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<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Matthew 2:12 Prayer for the day: The unfamiliar path is ahead \u2013and I need courage to continue though it may be longer, steeper, and overgrown. You know how I fear being lost even though you have promised to leave all the 99 sheep to find the lost one. Soften my heart O, God, that<\/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":[54,208,228,284,320,493,615,878,1167,1176],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-change","tag-christmas","tag-courage","tag-direction","tag-gimbiya","tag-inspired","tag-path","tag-trust","tag-unfamiliar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","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=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}