{"id":291,"date":"2025-11-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=291"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:09:09","slug":"thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-11-24-PICT0147-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-11-24-PICT0147-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-11-24-PICT0147-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-11-24-PICT0147-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-560x747.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><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>\u201cMay you be made strong <\/em><br><em>with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, <\/em><br><em>so that you may have all endurance and patience, <\/em><br><em><strong>joyfully giving thanks to the Father, <\/strong><\/em><br><em>who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. <\/em><br><em>He has rescued us from the power of darkness <\/em><br><em>and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, <\/em><br><em>in whom we have redemption, <\/em><br><em>the forgiveness of sins.\u201d<\/em> <br>\u2013 Colossians 1:11-14 (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\">Spend time considering this blessing from the New Testament book of Colossians. Receive God\u2019s blessings of strength, endurance, patience, light, redemption, and forgiveness, in preparation for Thanksgiving as a time to joyfully give thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMay you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, so that you may have all endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has rescued us from the power of darkness and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":292,"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-291","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\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}