{"id":2480,"date":"2014-03-18T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2014-03-18T04:00:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T09:00:30","slug":"trailer-park-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/03\/18\/trailer-park-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer park wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"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\" \/><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #4522ad\"> Luke 21:1-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4522ad\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jesus, we lose perspective, and for this we ask forgiveness. Sometimes we choose ignorance, but more often we are just lazy. Help us to avoid the temptation of justifying our selfishness. Help us to be humble as we walk with you and with others<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4522ad\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reflect on a time when someone with less than you was more grateful than you. What did the situation help you to understand about the Gospel of Good News? What questions did the situation leave in your heart?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Becky Ullom-Naugle, Director for Youth and Young Adult Ministries<\/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\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=lenten+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #4522ad\">Lenten Devotional<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>written by Duane Grady, pastor of Cedar Lake Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #4d26c1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #4d26c1\">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<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 21:1-4 Prayer for the day: Jesus, we lose perspective, and for this we ask forgiveness. Sometimes we choose ignorance, but more often we are just lazy. Help us to avoid the temptation of justifying our selfishness. Help us to be humble as we walk with you and with others Question for reflection: Reflect on<\/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":[585,684,687,1214],"class_list":["post-2480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-humility","tag-learning-from-others","tag-lent","tag-wisdom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480","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=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}