{"id":167,"date":"2025-04-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=167"},"modified":"2025-03-24T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:12:12","slug":"fragrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/fragrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/03\/25-04-07-stained-glass-by-msandersmusic-Pixabay-1200px-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/03\/25-04-07-stained-glass-by-msandersmusic-Pixabay-1200px-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/03\/25-04-07-stained-glass-by-msandersmusic-Pixabay-1200px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/03\/25-04-07-stained-glass-by-msandersmusic-Pixabay-1200px-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/03\/25-04-07-stained-glass-by-msandersmusic-Pixabay-1200px-560x372.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/03\/25-04-07-stained-glass-by-msandersmusic-Pixabay-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by msandersmusic \/ Pixabay<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThus says the Lord,<br>who makes a way in the sea,<br>a path in the mighty waters\u2026.<br>Do not remember the former things<br>or consider the things of old.<br>I am about to do a new thing;<br>now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?\u201d<\/strong><br>&#8211; Isaiah 43:16, 18-19a (NRSVue)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cMary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus\u2019s feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.\u201d<\/strong><br>&#8211; John 12:3 (NRSVue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Is there a particular smell that you love? For example, the smell of the first raindrops hitting dry earth, the fragrance of a fresh rosebud, salty wind off the ocean, a cologne or perfume worn by a loved one\u2014or something else entirely?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">What old memories does that smell bring to mind? Can that fragrance also lead you to envision new things emerging in your life or in the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fragrant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}