{"id":203,"date":"2025-06-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=203"},"modified":"2025-04-30T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:53:21","slug":"wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"845\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-16-20240817_115039-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-845x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204\" style=\"width:654px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-16-20240817_115039-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-845x1024.jpg 845w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-16-20240817_115039-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-16-20240817_115039-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x931.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-16-20240817_115039-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x679.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-16-20240817_115039-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A wild sunflower on the bluffs above Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins, Colo. <br>Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>\u201cDoes not wisdom call<br>and understanding raise her voice?<br>On the heights, beside the way,<br>at the crossroads she takes her stand;<br>beside the gates in front of the town,<br>at the entrance of the portals she cries out:<br>\u2018To you, O people, I call,and my cry is to all who live\u2026.\u2019<br>I love those who love me,<br>and those who seek me diligently find me.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br>&#8211; Proverbs 8:1-4 and 17 (NRSVue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br>Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Read the whole of Proverbs 8, with attention to how wisdom is personified. In verses 22-31, the poet imagines wisdom being there as God creates the world, at play in the new creation. Draw on paper, or in your mind\u2019s eye, a picture of what this personage wisdom might look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDoes not wisdom calland understanding raise her voice?On the heights, beside the way,at the crossroads she takes her stand;beside the gates in front of the town,at the entrance of the portals she cries out:\u2018To you, O people, I call,and my cry is to all who live\u2026.\u2019I love those who love me,and those who seek me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}