{"id":698,"date":"2012-03-19T04:49:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T09:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=698"},"modified":"2012-03-19T04:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T09:49:22","slug":"from-bitter-to-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/03\/19\/from-bitter-to-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bitter to Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<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><strong> \u00a0\u00a0 Exodus 15:\u00a0 22-27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nCreator God, we are blessed with sweet water that flows from you to our spirits. It quenches the bitter thirst we have from aches and pains that only you know of. We remember those affected by too much and too little water; and we pray that they may quench their bitter thirst with the sweet water you give to us, and to all. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nHave you ever been in a situation when something scarce was \u2018sweet\u2019 but when it became abundant was \u2018bitter\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>~ Catherine Gong, Coordinator of 2012 Workcamp Ministry<\/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\u00a0 Exodus 15:\u00a0 22-27 Prayer for the Day: Creator God, we are blessed with sweet water that flows from you to our spirits. It quenches the bitter thirst we have from aches and pains that only you know of. We remember those affected by too much and too little water; and we pray that they<\/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":[129,687,921,1126],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-bitter","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-sweet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}