{"id":294,"date":"2025-12-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=294"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:58:09","slug":"in-the-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/in-the-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"In the flesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-01-tsimur-asayonak-on-unsplash-1200px-1024x707.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-01-tsimur-asayonak-on-unsplash-1200px-1024x707.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-01-tsimur-asayonak-on-unsplash-1200px-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-01-tsimur-asayonak-on-unsplash-1200px-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-01-tsimur-asayonak-on-unsplash-1200px-560x387.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-01-tsimur-asayonak-on-unsplash-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by Tsimur Asayonak on Unsplash<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAnd the Word became flesh and lived among us, <br>and we have seen his glory, <br>the glory as of a father\u2019s only son, <br>full of grace and truth.\u201d <\/em><br>\u2013 John 1:14 (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\">As the Advent season begins, this scripture centers us in the Christmas promise of the gift of Jesus\u2014God present and alive, in the flesh, with humanity. Other words describing \u201cGod with us\u201d\u2014such as incarnate, embodied, physical, real, tangible\u2014also describe what it is to be human. Today, allow yourself to become more aware of your own body\u2014your real, tangible, physical presence in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father\u2019s only son, full of grace and truth.\u201d \u2013 John 1:14 (NRSVue) Activity As the Advent season begins, this scripture centers us in the Christmas promise of the gift of Jesus\u2014God present and alive, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295,"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-294","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\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}