{"id":238,"date":"2025-08-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=238"},"modified":"2025-08-10T22:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T22:15:38","slug":"nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/nearby\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-08-18-DSC_0242-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-08-18-DSC_0242-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-08-18-DSC_0242-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-08-18-DSC_0242-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-08-18-DSC_0242-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x364.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-08-18-DSC_0242-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAm I a God near by, says the Lord, <\/em><br><em>and not a God far off? <\/em><br><em>Who can hide in secret places <\/em><br><em>so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. <\/em><br><em>Do I not fill heaven and earth? <\/em><br><em>says the Lord\u201d <\/em><br><em>(Jeremiah 23:23-24, NRSVue).<\/em><\/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\">In your mind\u2019s eye, imagine seeing the holy, comforting presence of God filling all of the heavens and all of the earth around us\u2014including every secret nook and cranny. Now, wherever you go throughout the rest of your day, hold that holy, comforting presence of God nearby you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAm I a God near by, says the Lord, and not a God far off? Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord\u201d (Jeremiah 23:23-24, NRSVue). Activity In your mind\u2019s eye, imagine seeing the holy, comforting presence of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":239,"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-238","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\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}