{"id":732,"date":"2012-03-15T04:55:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T09:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=732"},"modified":"2012-03-15T04:55:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T09:55:52","slug":"732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/03\/15\/732\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank God!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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 <strong>Psalm 107<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nThanks, O God, for your steadfast love. Because of you we have known mercy and hope. Your saving grace, your healing presence, and self-giving love are more than we can imagine. Loving God, we seek the better way you have shown us in Jesus Christ. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection: <\/strong><br \/>\nHow do our neighbors see in us the Jesus who does not condemn, but the Jesus who desires to reconcile all?<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 Psalm 107 Prayer for the Day: Thanks, O God, for your steadfast love. Because of you we have known mercy and hope. Your saving grace, your healing presence, and self-giving love are more than we can imagine. Loving God, we seek the better way you have shown us in Jesus Christ. \u00a0Amen. Question<\/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":[687,921,1140],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-thank"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}