{"id":247,"date":"2025-09-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=247"},"modified":"2025-08-10T23:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:41:08","slug":"like-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/like-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Like trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-09-08-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-09-08-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-09-08-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-09-08-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-09-08-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x354.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/08\/25-09-08-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>\u201cHappy are those<br>who do not follow the advice of the wicked<br>or take the path that sinners tread<br>or sit in the seat of scoffers,<br>but their delight is in the law of the Lord,<br>and on his law they meditate day and night.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201c<strong>They are like trees<\/strong><br>planted by streams of water,<br>which yield their fruit in its season,<br>and their leaves do not wither.<br>In all that they do, they prosper\u201d <\/em><br><em>(Psalm 1:1-3, 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\">Think about the best qualities of trees. Are they strong and sturdy, but also flexible? Are they life-giving and sheltering to other creatures? Are they ever-green, or perhaps adaptable to the various seasons of life? What other words and phrases come to mind? How may these qualities also describe people who delight in God\u2019s ways?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHappy are thosewho do not follow the advice of the wickedor take the path that sinners treador sit in the seat of scoffers,but their delight is in the law of the Lord,and on his law they meditate day and night. \u201cThey are like treesplanted by streams of water,which yield their fruit in its season,and their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":248,"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-247","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\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}