{"id":3315,"date":"2014-12-15T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2014-12-15T04:53:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:53:00","slug":"stretching-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/12\/15\/stretching-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretching Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<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><span style=\"color: #6060cc\"><strong><br \/>\nPsalm 125<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6262e3\"><strong><br \/>\nTo ponder:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nAs I left the grocery store, a man stretched out his hand and asked me for several dollars to buy some food. Keeping his eyes on the sidewalk, he explained that his family was hungry and he didn\u2019t have any money. Reaching into my purse, I handed him some money in response to his need, which he gratefully accepted before entering the store. Was he telling me the truth? I don\u2019t know. What I do know is that Jesus calls us to feed the hungry and in doing so, we feed Jesus. Let us welcome those who have need into our hearts this Christmas. In doing so, we welcome Jesus.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #6262e3\"><strong>Prayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nStretch us, God, to see Jesus in those whom we meet along the way to Christmas. Then stretch us to respond in the spirit of Christmas with love and kindness. Amen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">~ Kim Ebersole, Director of Family Life and Older Adult Ministries<\/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: #6262e3\"> <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: #6262e3\"><a style=\"color: #6262e3\" 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. Psalm 125 To ponder: As I left the grocery store, a man stretched out his hand and asked me for several dollars to buy some food. Keeping his eyes on the sidewalk, he explained that his family was hungry and he didn\u2019t have any<\/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":[54,228,443,587,642,661,798,1206],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-christmas","tag-feed","tag-hungry","tag-jesus","tag-kindness","tag-need","tag-welcome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","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=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}