{"id":301,"date":"2025-12-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=301"},"modified":"2025-11-21T20:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T20:05:55","slug":"wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-15-DSC_0879-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBC-1200px-1024x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-15-DSC_0879-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBC-1200px-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-15-DSC_0879-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBC-1200px-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-15-DSC_0879-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBC-1200px-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-15-DSC_0879-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBC-1200px-560x319.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-15-DSC_0879-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byJoelBC-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo taken at McDowell Grove in Naperville, Ill., by Joel Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cBe patient, therefore, brothers and sisters, <\/em><br><em>until the coming of the Lord. <\/em><br><em>The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, <\/em><br><em>being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. <\/em><br><em>You also must be patient. <\/em><br><em>Strengthen your hearts, <\/em><em>for the coming of the Lord is near.\u201d<\/em> <br>\u2013 James 5:7-8 (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\">How hard is it to wait for something you desire? Practice patience by embedding into your day a few minutes of intentional waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBe patient, therefore, brothers and sisters, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer waits for the precious crop from the earth, being patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains. You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.\u201d \u2013 James 5:7-8 (NRSVue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":302,"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-301","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\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}