{"id":274,"date":"2025-10-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=274"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:32:07","slug":"dwelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/dwelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-27-NestAtNachusaGrasslands-byJoelBC-DSC_1903-900px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-27-NestAtNachusaGrasslands-byJoelBC-DSC_1903-900px.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-27-NestAtNachusaGrasslands-byJoelBC-DSC_1903-900px-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-27-NestAtNachusaGrasslands-byJoelBC-DSC_1903-900px-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/10\/25-10-27-NestAtNachusaGrasslands-byJoelBC-DSC_1903-900px-560x376.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A swallow\u2019s nest at the Nature Conservancy\u2019s Nachusa Grasslands near Franklin Grove, Ill. <\/em><br><em>Photo by Joel Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>\u201cHow lovely is your dwelling place,<br>O Lord of hosts!<br>My soul longs, indeed it faints,<br>for the courts of the Lord;<br>my heart and my flesh sing for joy<br>to the living God.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Even the sparrow finds a home<br>and the swallow a nest for herself,<br>where she may lay her young,<br>at your altars, O Lord of hosts,<br>my King and my God.<br>Happy are those who live in your house,<br>ever singing your praise.\u201d<\/strong><br>\u2013 Psalm 84:1-4 (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 time intentionally looking at homes as \u201cdwelling places\u201d as you take a walk around your block, or make a circuit of a nearby neighborhood, or do an online \u201ctour\u201d of a neighborhood somewhere on the globe through Google Earth (<a href=\"https:\/\/earth.google.com\/web\">https:\/\/earth.google.com\/web<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow lovely is your dwelling place,O Lord of hosts!My soul longs, indeed it faints,for the courts of the Lord;my heart and my flesh sing for joyto the living God. Even the sparrow finds a homeand the swallow a nest for herself,where she may lay her young,at your altars, O Lord of hosts,my King and my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":275,"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-274","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\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}