{"id":222,"date":"2025-07-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=222"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:57:03","slug":"blameless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/blameless\/","title":{"rendered":"Blameless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-21-TentUnderStars-ByGraceLiFromPixabay-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-21-TentUnderStars-ByGraceLiFromPixabay-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-21-TentUnderStars-ByGraceLiFromPixabay-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-21-TentUnderStars-ByGraceLiFromPixabay-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-21-TentUnderStars-ByGraceLiFromPixabay-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-21-TentUnderStars-ByGraceLiFromPixabay.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Image by Grace Li from Pixabay<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cO Lord, who may abide in your tent?<br>Who may dwell on your holy hill?<br>Those who walk blamelessly and do what is right<br>and speak the truth from their heart;<br>who do not slander with their tongue<br>and do no evil to their friends<br>nor heap shame upon their neighbors;<br>in whose eyes the wicked are despised<br>but who honor those who fear the Lord;<br>who stand by their oath even to their hurt;<br>who do not lend money at interest<br>and do not take a bribe against the innocent.<br>Those who do these things shall never be moved.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Psalm 15 (NRSVue)<\/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\">Read aloud this psalm\u2019s description of those who are blameless. Consider the ways you yourself \u201cwalk blamelessly.\u201d Even if you feel you fall short\u2014and all of us do\u2014take a few moments to think about and celebrate how you \u201cdo what is right.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cO Lord, who may abide in your tent?Who may dwell on your holy hill?Those who walk blamelessly and do what is rightand speak the truth from their heart;who do not slander with their tongueand do no evil to their friendsnor heap shame upon their neighbors;in whose eyes the wicked are despisedbut who honor those who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":223,"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-222","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\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}