{"id":331,"date":"2011-12-08T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T22:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=331"},"modified":"2011-12-08T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T22:07:45","slug":"thief-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2011\/12\/08\/thief-in-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief in the Night"},"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><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God of Surprises, who enters into our lives in unexpected ways and at unexpected times, help us to keep watch, not with fear and suspicion, but with hope and anticipation that something new is about to happen. Open us to the idea of expecting the unexpected from you. Keep us ever watchful for you in our lives and the world. Thank you, God, for coming to us. Amen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When have you encountered Emmanuel-God with us-in unexpected places?<br \/>\nHow has God entered your life in surprising ways?<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong>Kim Ebersole, Director, Family Life and Older Adult Ministries<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Congregational 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<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">When have you encountered Emmanuel-God with us-in unexpected places? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">How has God entered your life in surprising ways? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer for the Day God of Surprises, who enters into our lives in unexpected ways and at unexpected times, help us to keep watch, not with fear and suspicion, but with hope and anticipation that something new is about to happen. Open us to the idea of expecting the unexpected from you. Keep us ever<\/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":[54,408,921],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-examination","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}