{"id":3907,"date":"2015-04-05T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2015-04-05T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T06:00:20","slug":"mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2015\/04\/05\/mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3600 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-COVER-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"2015 COVER\" width=\"189\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00\"><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\">John 20:1-18<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #993366\"><strong><span style=\"color: #dba61f\"><span style=\"color: #808000\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><span style=\"color: #cc165f\"><span style=\"color: #4d69bf\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">Question:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span class=\"chapter-2\"><span class=\"text Isa-43-1\">But now, thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord<\/span>, your Creator, O Jacob,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Isa-43-1\">And He who formed you, O Israel,<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"text Isa-43-1\">\u201cDo not fear, for I have <em>redeemed<\/em> you;<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span class=\"text Isa-43-1\">I have called you by name; you are Mine!<\/span><\/em> &#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Isaiah 43:1)<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\">These words leap off the page into my heart. With these words I am called to swift passage into the waiting arms of Jesus.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>He knows your name<\/em>. How does knowing this release you to live within the confines of today?<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000\"> Prayer:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nAmazing God! Amazing love! Thank you this day for your <em>amazing Gift<\/em> &#8230; and calling me your own. May I rest in that love. Help me to recognize my identity and acceptance in you. Amen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">~ <span style=\"color: #000000\">Randi Rowan, Program Assistant<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/GXrAqE_tSmo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/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: #800080\"><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080\">Lent Devotional<\/span><\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"color: #800080\">\u00a0<\/strong>written by\u00a0Craig H. Smith<\/em><em>, district executive for the Atlantic Northeast District of the Church of the Brethren and ordained minister. (Available from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #cc165f\"><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong><a style=\"color: #800080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/\">Brethren Press<\/a> <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">in<\/span> <\/span>print and E-Book formats). Join us as we look and listen for the coming of the Word through the reading of scripture, Craig&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 20:1-18 Question: But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, \u201cDo not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! &#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Isaiah 43:1) These words leap off the page into my heart. With these words I am called<\/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":[687],"class_list":["post-3907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-lent"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907","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=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}