{"id":3220,"date":"2014-12-05T04:50:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2014-12-05T04:50:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T09:50:11","slug":"hand-to-mouth-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/12\/05\/hand-to-mouth-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand-to-mouth consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Not seeing today\u2019s post? Hit the \u201crefresh\u201d button on your browser.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3193 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AWAKE_ADVENT_4-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"AWAKE_ADVENT_4\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #e39649\">Jeremiah 1:4-10<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #e39649\"><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAs we reflect on the calling of Jeremiah, we are reminded that we are not alone. When are some times we felt like the task ahead of us was greater than what we alone could accomplish?<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #e39649\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nO Lord, help us to remember that you are always with us, giving us the strength to move ahead and words to speak when everything seems beyond our capability. ~ Amen<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Kristen Hoffman, Coordinator of CCS and National Junior High Conference<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year&#8217;s<span style=\"color: #e39649\"> <strong>Advent Devotional <\/strong><\/span>written by Sandy Bosserman,\u00a0a former district executive and ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren. (Available from<span style=\"color: #e39649\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #e39649\"><a style=\"color: #e39649\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\">Brethren Press<\/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, Sandy&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not seeing today\u2019s post? Hit the \u201crefresh\u201d button on your browser. Jeremiah 1:4-10 Question for reflection: As we reflect on the calling of Jeremiah, we are reminded that we are not alone. When are some times we felt like the task ahead of us was greater than what we alone could accomplish? Prayer for the<\/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":[66,104,126,1109],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-alone","tag-awake","tag-beyond","tag-strength"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","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=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}