{"id":286,"date":"2025-11-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=286"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:47:21","slug":"sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/sunlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-11-17-PICT0445-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-11-17-PICT0445-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-11-17-PICT0445-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-11-17-PICT0445-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-11-17-PICT0445-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cBut for you who revere my name <br>the sun of righteousness shall rise, <br>with healing in its wings.\u201d <\/em><br>&#8211; Malachi 4:2a (NRSVue)<\/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\">If the sun is shining brightly in your area today, stand or sit outside in the sunlight with your eyes closed for a time. Take in the sun\u2019s warmth as a healing blessing from God. If it is cloudy, rainy, or even snowing where you are, use your imagination to feel sunlight surround you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.\u201d &#8211; Malachi 4:2a (NRSVue) Activity If the sun is shining brightly in your area today, stand or sit outside in the sunlight with your eyes closed for a time. Take in the sun\u2019s warmth as a healing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287,"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-286","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\/286","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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}