{"id":308,"date":"2025-12-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=308"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:36:05","slug":"sun-and-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/sun-and-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun and moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-29-DSC_0525-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-29-DSC_0525-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-29-DSC_0525-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-29-DSC_0525-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-29-DSC_0525-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-29-DSC_0525-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/11\/25-12-29-DSC_0525-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Joel Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cPraise the Lord!<br>Praise the Lord from the heavens;<br>praise him in the heights!<br>Praise him, all his angels;<br>praise him, all his host!<br><strong>Praise him, sun and moon;<\/strong><br>praise him, all you shining stars!<br>Praise him, you highest heavens.\u201d<\/em><br>\u2013 Psalm 148:1-4a (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\">In the psalm, all creation is urged to join the heavenly beings in praising God\u2014which in these days after Christmas reminds us of the angelic chorus that broke out in praise for Jesus\u2019 birth. <strong>What is your favorite way to praise God<\/strong>\u2014singing or making music, praying or meditating, dancing or enjoying a walk in God\u2019s Creation, or another means of expression?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPraise the Lord!Praise the Lord from the heavens;praise him in the heights!Praise him, all his angels;praise him, all his host!Praise him, sun and moon;praise him, all you shining stars!Praise him, you highest heavens.\u201d\u2013 Psalm 148:1-4a (NRSVue) Activity In the psalm, all creation is urged to join the heavenly beings in praising God\u2014which in these days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309,"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-308","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\/308","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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}