{"id":2559,"date":"2014-03-24T04:03:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2014-03-24T04:03:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:03:52","slug":"eschewing-obfuscations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/03\/24\/eschewing-obfuscations\/","title":{"rendered":"Eschewing obfuscations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<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\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #e08600\"><strong>Luke 10:38-42<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #e08600\">Prayer for the day:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nHoly Spirit, help us to hold our daily plans and agenda lightly, so that we can quickly toss it aside when you lead us to.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #e08600\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nCan you think of a recent time when you felt a nudge to help someone? How did you react to that nudge and how did it feel?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>~ Tim Heishman, National Youth Conference Coordinator<\/p>\n<p><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<span style=\"color: #e08600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Search=lenten+devotional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #e08600\">Lenten Devotional\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>written by Duane Grady, pastor of Cedar Lake Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #e08600\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #e08600\">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>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 10:38-42 Prayer for the day: Holy Spirit, help us to hold our daily plans and agenda lightly, so that we can quickly toss it aside when you lead us to. Question for reflection: Can you think of a recent time when you felt a nudge to help someone? How did you react to 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":[557,564,688,832,921],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-help","tag-hold-lightly","tag-lenten","tag-nudge","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","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=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}