{"id":316,"date":"2011-12-04T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T23:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=316"},"modified":"2011-12-04T18:32:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T23:32:42","slug":"heads-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2011\/12\/04\/heads-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/christmas-cards8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"christmas-cards\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/christmas-cards8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><strong>Prayer f<\/strong><strong>o<\/strong><strong>r the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Creator God, In this holiday season that brings chaos, commercialism,  and worry, help us to remember that this is not what we are called to  celebrate, and find the true reason for the season. Help our actions to  reflect what we are celebrating and share it with the world around us.  Grant us patience, and trust as we wait for the arrival of a king, that  came into the world as a baby, to save us all. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questio<\/strong><strong>n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What are we celebrating this holiday season, the son of man coming  and dwelling in our earth, or Santa Claus and stuff that gets in the  way? Why are we celebrating?<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Carol Fike, <span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">National Young Adult Conference Coordinator and Assistant Christian Citizenship Seminar Coordinator <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Con<\/em><em>gregational Life Ministries of the Church of      the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in      connection to this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=8488\">Advent devotional<\/a> written by David W. Miller. (Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\">Brethren Press<\/a>)      Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through  the     reading of scripture, David&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and      conversations on t<\/em><em>his <\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer for the Day Creator God, In this holiday season that brings chaos, commercialism, and worry, help us to remember that this is not what we are called to celebrate, and find the true reason for the season. Help our actions to reflect what we are celebrating and share it with the world around us.<\/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":[54,921],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}