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John 8:12-19<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Question for r<\/span><\/span>eflection<\/span>:<\/span> When have you been surprised by the simplicity of God\u2019s work?<\/p>\n \u00a0~ Josh Brockway, Director for Spiritual Life and Discipleship<\/p>\n Congregational Life Ministries of the Church of the Brethren is offering these simple prayers and questions in connection to this year’s Advent Devotional <\/strong><\/span>written by Sandy Bosserman,\u00a0a former district executive and ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren. (Available from\u00a0<\/span>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’s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em>his\u00a0<\/em>blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John 8:12-19 Question for reflection: When have you been surprised by the simplicity of God\u2019s work? Prayer for the day: O God, in whom no darkness prevails, bring to light all the places in which we hide from\u00a0your grace. Empower us as those who carry your light into the world whose darkness too easily overcomes.<\/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":[54,382,693,866],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-empower","tag-light","tag-overcome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nPrayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span>
\nO God, in whom no darkness prevails, bring to light all the places in which we hide from\u00a0your grace. Empower us as those who carry your light into the world whose darkness too easily overcomes. Refine us with the\u00a0heat of your loving light that we may live anew as citizens of the Kingdom of Light. Amen<\/p>\n