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Matthew 2:13-18<\/span> Question for r<\/span>eflection:<\/span> ~ Becky Ullom Naugle, Director for Youth and Young Adult Ministry<\/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<\/span> <\/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 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 2:13-18 Question for reflection: Are there any circumstances in your life which cause you to fear for your children or grandchildren? How do you connect with this impulse to \u201ctake the children and flee?\u201d Prayer for the day: Sheltering God, who promises there is no place where we can go that you are not,<\/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":[54,172,382,442,882,934],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-advent","tag-calm","tag-empower","tag-fear","tag-peace","tag-promise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","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=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>Are there any circumstances in your life which cause you to fear for your children or grandchildren? How do you connect with this impulse to \u201ctake the children and flee?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPrayer for the day:<\/strong><\/span>
\nSheltering God, who promises there is no place where we can go that you are not, calm our fears and empower us to make choices which further your kingdom. In Jesus\u2019 name we pray, amen.<\/p>\n