{"id":256,"date":"2025-09-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=256"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:23:48","slug":"untroubled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/untroubled\/","title":{"rendered":"Untroubled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-09-22-DSC_3389-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-09-22-DSC_3389-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-09-22-DSC_3389-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-09-22-DSC_3389-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-09-22-DSC_3389-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-09-22-DSC_3389-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Flowers in bloom during the National Older Adult Conference at Lake Junaluska, N.C. <\/em><br><em>Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cPeace I leave with you; <\/em><br><em>my peace I give to you. <\/em><br><em>I do not give to you as the world gives. <\/em><br><em><strong>Do not let your hearts be troubled, <\/strong><\/em><br><em>and do not let them be afraid.\u201d <br>\u2013 John 14:27 (NRSVue)<\/em><\/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\">Spend some quiet moments identifying what is troubling you today, and in your imagination see the hands of God removing those burdens from you. Emerge from this quiet contemplation with your heart untroubled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.\u201d \u2013 John 14:27 (NRSVue) Activity Spend some quiet moments identifying what is troubling you today, and in your imagination see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}