{"id":206,"date":"2025-06-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=206"},"modified":"2025-04-30T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:23:06","slug":"longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/longing\/","title":{"rendered":"Longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"858\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-23-PICT5140-byJoelandCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-858x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207\" style=\"width:730px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-23-PICT5140-byJoelandCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-858x1024.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-23-PICT5140-byJoelandCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-23-PICT5140-byJoelandCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x916.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-23-PICT5140-byJoelandCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x668.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/04\/25-06-23-PICT5140-byJoelandCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Photo by Joel and Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cAs a deer longs for flowing streams,<br>so my soul longs for you, O God.<br>My soul thirsts for God,<br>for the living God.<br>When shall I come and behold<br>the face of God?<br>My tears have been my food<br>day and night,<br>while people say to me continually,<br>\u2018Where is your God?\u2019 \u2026<br>Why are you cast down, O my soul,<br>and why are you disquieted within me?<br>Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,<br>my help and my God.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><br>&#8211; Psalm 42:1-3 and 11 (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\">Sing the hymn \u201cAs the deer\u201d (1017 in the <em>Hymnal Supplement<\/em> published by Brethren Press) or listen to a recording of this song based on the text from Psalm 42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs a deer longs for flowing streams,so my soul longs for you, O God.My soul thirsts for God,for the living God.When shall I come and beholdthe face of God?My tears have been my foodday and night,while people say to me continually,\u2018Where is your God?\u2019 \u2026Why are you cast down, O my soul,and why are you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207,"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-206","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\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}