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\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Colossians 3:12-17<\/span> Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span> ~ Katie Cummings, National Youth Conference Coordinator<\/p>\n Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year’s\u00a0<\/span>Lenten Devotional<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>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 <\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Colossians 3:12-17 Prayer for the day: Benevolent God, You need no invitation to be present in our lives. May we be receptive to your ever present spirit working among us. Question for reflection: Reflect on the ways that you see God moving in your midst within your own congregation. ~ Katie Cummings, National Youth<\/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":[630,687,769,921,925,967],"class_list":["post-2671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-invitation","tag-lent","tag-moving-in-your-midst","tag-prayer","tag-present","tag-receptive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","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=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nPrayer for the day:<\/span><\/strong>
\nBenevolent God, You need no invitation to be present in our lives. May we be receptive to your ever present spirit working among us.<\/p>\n
\nReflect on the ways that you see God moving in your midst within your own congregation.<\/p>\n