{"id":2365,"date":"2014-03-05T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2014-03-05T04:00:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:00:36","slug":"alone-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/03\/05\/alone-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone with God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2364 alignleft\" alt=\"LENT_real_rest_FRONTPAGE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LENT_real_rest_FRONTPAGE-214x300.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color: #808000\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Mark 1:35-39<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808000\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nO God of the quiet places, we often desire to meet you but find ourselves distracted by so many things. At times even the idea of silence and solitude frightens us. In this season of stripping away the clutter and distractions, enflame our hearts that we may truly seek you alone. \u00a0Embolden our minds that we may seek you even when our schedules dictate we have more pressing matters. May our desire to see you be matched with faithful imitation of Jesus who went out alone to prayer, for it is in his name that we pray, Amen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999\"><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808000\">Question for reflection:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhere do you go to find alone time with God?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #999999\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">~ Josh Brockway, Director for Spiritual Life and Discipleship<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/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 <span style=\"color: #808000\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=lenten+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #808000\">Lenten Devotional <\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>written by Duane Grady,<span style=\"color: #000000\"> pastor of Cedar Lake Church of the Brethren<\/span> (Available from<span style=\"color: #808000\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #808000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #808000\">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, Duane&#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>&nbsp; Mark 1:35-39 &nbsp; Prayer for the day: O God of the quiet places, we often desire to meet you but find ourselves distracted by so many things. At times even the idea of silence and solitude frightens us. In this season of stripping away the clutter and distractions, enflame our hearts that we 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":[334,601,687,921,953,1062,1075],"class_list":["post-2365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-distracted","tag-imitate","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-quiet","tag-silence","tag-solitude"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365","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=2365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}