{"id":216,"date":"2025-07-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=216"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:49:05","slug":"faith-working-through-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/faith-working-through-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith working through love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-01-RoseByJudeKerrKrehbiel-1200px-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-01-RoseByJudeKerrKrehbiel-1200px-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-01-RoseByJudeKerrKrehbiel-1200px-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-01-RoseByJudeKerrKrehbiel-1200px-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-01-RoseByJudeKerrKrehbiel-1200px-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-01-RoseByJudeKerrKrehbiel-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Jude Kerr Krehbiel<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cFor in Christ Jesus\u2026the only thing that counts is faith working through love.\u201d <\/em><br>\u2013 Galatians 5:6 (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\"><em>Jude Kerr Krehbiel shared this reflection with Tiny Retreats, to accompany this photo: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis rose, growing in my garden, in my mother&#8217;s garden before mine, and in my grandmother&#8217;s garden before that, was brought to the US from Bavaria by my grandfather&#8217;s family back in the mid-1800s and my family has been able to keep it going all these years. The fragrance is wonderful, like no other rose, and always a reminder of the dreams of those who came before and the hope for those who come after.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Have you experienced a similar continuity of faith, hope, and love that has been kept alive over the years and through generations? Can you think of an example in your family or another community to which you belong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor in Christ Jesus\u2026the only thing that counts is faith working through love.\u201d \u2013 Galatians 5:6 (NRSVue) Activity Jude Kerr Krehbiel shared this reflection with Tiny Retreats, to accompany this photo: \u201cThis rose, growing in my garden, in my mother&#8217;s garden before mine, and in my grandmother&#8217;s garden before that, was brought to the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":217,"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-216","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\/216","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=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}