{"id":864,"date":"2012-04-07T04:33:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T09:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=864"},"modified":"2012-04-07T04:33:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T09:33:22","slug":"a-day-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2012\/04\/07\/a-day-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"A day of silence"},"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 <strong>John 19: 38-42<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for the Day:<\/strong><br \/>\nGod, today I wait<br \/>\nIn between death and resurrection,<br \/>\nIn the midst of mystery<br \/>\nWith hope.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question for reflection:<\/strong><br \/>\nHold an extended period of silence. Silence your own words. Sit in darkness. Allow God to speak to you or to remain silent with you.<\/p>\n<p>~ Jonathan Shively, executive director, 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 John 19: 38-42 Prayer for the Day: God, today I wait In between death and resurrection, In the midst of mystery With hope. Waiting. &nbsp; Question for reflection: Hold an extended period of silence. Silence your own words. Sit in darkness. Allow God to speak to you or to remain silent with you. ~<\/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":[687,921,1062,1195],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-silence","tag-waiting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}