{"id":323,"date":"2011-12-06T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=323"},"modified":"2011-12-06T05:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T10:00:36","slug":"turn-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2011\/12\/06\/turn-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- \t\t@page { margin: 0.79in } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --><\/p>\n<p><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>Almighty one, Help us to prepare for the way of the Lord. For we are not  worthy to carry your sandals, yet somehow you always remember us, thank  you. Help us to bear fruit worthy of repentance, prepare our hearts and  look away from ourselves and turn our attention towards you. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questio<\/strong><strong>n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What kind of \u201ctrees\u201d are in your life, are no longer bearing fruit and  need to be removed, and what kind of \u201charvest\u201d have you been neglecting  to gather?<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Carol Fike, National Young Adult Conference Coordinator and Assistant Christian Citizenship Seminar Coordinator<\/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 Almighty one, Help us to prepare for the way of the Lord. For we are not worthy to carry your sandals, yet somehow you always remember us, thank you. Help us to bear fruit worthy of repentance, prepare our hearts and look away from ourselves and turn our attention towards 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":[54,921],"class_list":["post-323","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\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}