{"id":271,"date":"2025-10-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=271"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:28:46","slug":"wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-20-LakeJunaluskaAtDawn-DSC_2859-byCherylBC-900px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-20-LakeJunaluskaAtDawn-DSC_2859-byCherylBC-900px.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-20-LakeJunaluskaAtDawn-DSC_2859-byCherylBC-900px-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-20-LakeJunaluskaAtDawn-DSC_2859-byCherylBC-900px-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-20-LakeJunaluskaAtDawn-DSC_2859-byCherylBC-900px-560x307.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">L<em>ake Junaluska, N.C., at dawn. Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>\u201cBut Jacob said, \u2018I will not let you go, unless you bless me.\u2019\u201d <\/strong><br>&#8211; Genesis 32:26b (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\">Read the Bible story of Jacob wrestling with the heavenly being in Genesis 32:22-31. When have you wrestled with God for a blessing? Perhaps you have tried to pin down a sense of God\u2019s presence during a dark night of the soul, or a time when your prayers were born out of desperation. Write down words that describe what such spiritual wrestling feels like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut Jacob said, \u2018I will not let you go, unless you bless me.\u2019\u201d &#8211; Genesis 32:26b (NRSVue) Activity Read the Bible story of Jacob wrestling with the heavenly being in Genesis 32:22-31. When have you wrestled with God for a blessing? Perhaps you have tried to pin down a sense of God\u2019s presence during a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272,"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-271","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\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}