{"id":503,"date":"2012-02-22T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=503"},"modified":"2012-02-22T05:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T10:00:46","slug":"what-fast-will-you-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/02\/22\/what-fast-will-you-choose\/","title":{"rendered":"What Fast Will You Choose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2012\/02\/New-Picture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" title=\"A community of Love\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2012\/02\/New-Picture.png\" alt=\"A Community of Love\" width=\"105\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Isaiah 58:1<em><\/em>-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day<\/strong><br \/>\nGod, as we enter this season of exile and searching, reveal to us those places where our fasting is more about us than about your present, yet coming reign. Forgive us, we pray, of those times when our practices of faith are used as weapons of self-gratification. Embolden us in this season of Lent to ask which fast is ours to undertake so that we might live more fully into your vision for heaven on earth. Amen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat fast will you choose?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Josh Brockway, Director Spiritual Life &amp; Discipleship<\/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\/SearchResults.asp?Cat=213\">Lent devoti<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethrenpress.com\/SearchResults.asp?Cat=213\">onal<\/a>\u00a0written by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford. (Available from\u00a0<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, Cheryl&#8217;s reflections, times of prayer, and conversations on t<\/em><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>blog.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Isaiah 58:1-12 Prayer for the Day God, as we enter this season of exile and searching, reveal to us those places where our fasting is more about us than about your present, yet coming reign. Forgive us, we pray, of those times when our practices of faith are used as weapons of self-gratification. Embolden<\/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":[440,687,921],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-fasting","tag-lent","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}