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Luke 2:41-52<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n ~ Stan Dueck – Director, Transforming Practices<\/p>\n Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year’s\u00a0Lenten Devotional\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>written by Duane Grady, pastor of Cedar Lake Church of the Brethren (Available from\u00a0Brethren 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’s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em>his\u00a0<\/em>blog.<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Luke 2:41-52 Prayer for the day: Our lives are full of new opportunities and change, O God. We give you thanks, the source of all abiding knowledge. Through Word and Spirit, you enlighten our minds and transform our hearts. Bless us with a faith that trusts your promises. Amen. Question for reflection: What have you<\/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":[535,687,855,921,1156],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-growth","tag-lent","tag-opportunity","tag-prayer","tag-transform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","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=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPrayer for the day:<\/span><\/strong>
\nOur lives are full of new opportunities and change, O God. We give you thanks, the source of all abiding knowledge. Through Word and Spirit, you enlighten our minds and transform our hearts. Bless us with a faith that trusts your promises. Amen.<\/p>\n
\nWhat have you learned in adulthood that has enriched your personal or vocational growth? What learnings have deepened your faith that you have shared with others in an encouraging way?<\/p>\n