{"id":677,"date":"2012-03-10T04:38:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=677"},"modified":"2012-03-10T04:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T09:38:07","slug":"its-good-to-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/03\/10\/its-good-to-be-here\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Good To Be Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong><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>\u00a0 Mark 9: 2-8 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nWe think we cannot handle troubles, Lord, because we tend to see them in the wrong light. It\u2019s totally different when we filter things through your perspective. Guide us with your counsel, keep our hearts sensitive to your voice, and grant us refuge, for it is good to be near you (Psalm 73:26-28). Lord, when we seek you, please help us find you. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nIn what creative ways can you discover God\u2019s perspective?<\/p>\n<p>~ Randi Rowan, Program Assistant, Congregational Life Ministries<\/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><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Mark 9: 2-8 Prayer for the Day: We think we cannot handle troubles, Lord, because we tend to see them in the wrong light. It\u2019s totally different when we filter things through your perspective. Guide us with your counsel, keep our hearts sensitive to your voice, and grant us refuge, for it is good<\/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":[538,687,921],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-guide","tag-lent","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}