{"id":384,"date":"2011-12-15T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=384"},"modified":"2011-12-15T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:59:07","slug":"breaking-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2011\/12\/15\/breaking-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2011\/12\/christmas-cards1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"christmas-cards\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2011\/12\/christmas-cards1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><span>Luke 1:46-56<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<strong>Prayer<\/strong><br \/>\nLoving God, we await the One born in Bethlehem. In this season of anticipation, you offer us opportunities to rejoice, to discover renewal and to share your love. O God, we give ourselves as your servants, stirred to embrace Christ\u2019s mission in the world. Amen.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Question<\/strong><br \/>\nThe statement from Mary about her unborn Son is often referred to as the Magnificat. I wonder if we can read Mary\u2019s song without being concerned about our status, wealth and power and especially our spiritual identity as individuals, congregations and a nation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-Stan Dueck, Director, Transforming Practices<\/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<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 1:46-56 Prayer Loving God, we await the One born in Bethlehem. In this season of anticipation, you offer us opportunities to rejoice, to discover renewal and to share your love. O God, we give ourselves as your servants, stirred to embrace Christ\u2019s mission in the world. Amen. Question The statement from Mary about her<\/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-384","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\/384","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=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}