{"id":225,"date":"2025-07-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=225"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:56:42","slug":"prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-28-PICT1576-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-28-PICT1576-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-28-PICT1576-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-28-PICT1576-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-28-PICT1576-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/25-07-28-PICT1576-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201c[Jesus] was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, \u2018Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.\u2019 So he said to them, \u2018When you pray, say:<br>Father, may your name be revered as holy.<br>May your kingdom come.<br>Give us each day our daily bread.<br>And forgive us our sins,<br>for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us.<br>And do not bring us to the time of trial.\u2019\u201d<\/em> <br>\u2013 Luke 11:1-4 (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\">If you memorized the Lord\u2019s Prayer as a child, this may not be the version you learned. Pray each line of this version, taking time to pause between lines. Then, if you know the Lord\u2019s Prayer by heart, pray it aloud from memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[Jesus] was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, \u2018Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.\u2019 So he said to them, \u2018When you pray, say:Father, may your name be revered as holy.May your kingdom come.Give us each day our daily bread.And forgive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226,"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-225","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\/225","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=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}