{"id":714,"date":"2012-03-12T04:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T09:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=714"},"modified":"2012-03-12T04:35:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T09:35:57","slug":"714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/03\/12\/714\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Care is a Spiritual Discipline"},"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>\u00a0\u00a0 1 Corinthians 3: 10-23<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nO eternal God, often we have not seriously taken your promise to dwell within our hearts and be with us in every facet of our lives. God, you deliver us from our devices that hold us captive to experience healing and love. We are God\u2019s temple even while under construction. Faithful God, you furnish the material for our growth. With your ever-present Spirit extend our ministry beyond what our eyes see and our hearts may embrace. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection: <\/strong><br \/>\nWhat implication(s) does it have for me that I am a part of God\u2019s sacred temple and have received a gift of the Spirit?<\/p>\n<p>~ Stan Dueck, Director for 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\/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 1 Corinthians 3: 10-23 Prayer for the Day: O eternal God, often we have not seriously taken your promise to dwell within our hearts and be with us in every facet of our lives. God, you deliver us from our devices that hold us captive to experience healing and love. We are God\u2019s temple<\/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":[687,921,1034,1091],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-self-care","tag-spirit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}