{"id":312,"date":"2026-01-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=312"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:23:25","slug":"arise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/arise\/","title":{"rendered":"Arise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-05-StainedGlassWindowAtGeneralOfficesChapel-PICT9449-CherylB-C-1200px-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-05-StainedGlassWindowAtGeneralOfficesChapel-PICT9449-CherylB-C-1200px-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-05-StainedGlassWindowAtGeneralOfficesChapel-PICT9449-CherylB-C-1200px-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-05-StainedGlassWindowAtGeneralOfficesChapel-PICT9449-CherylB-C-1200px-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-05-StainedGlassWindowAtGeneralOfficesChapel-PICT9449-CherylB-C-1200px-560x747.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-05-StainedGlassWindowAtGeneralOfficesChapel-PICT9449-CherylB-C-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A stained glass window in the chapel at the Church of the Brethren General Offices. <br>Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>\u201cArise, shine, for your light has come,<\/strong><br>and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.<br>For darkness shall cover the earth<br>and thick darkness the peoples,<br>but the Lord will arise upon you,<br>and his glory will appear over you.<br>Nations shall come to your light<br>and kings to the brightness of your dawn.<br><strong>Lift up your eyes and look around.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br>&#8211; Isaiah 60:1-4a (NRSVue)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Follow the advice of scripture and \u201clift up your eyes and look around.\u201d Or perk up your ears and listen to what is around you. Acknowledge or appreciate what you see and hear. Then spend a minute in prayer, speaking with God about what is around you in this moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cArise, shine, for your light has come,and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.For darkness shall cover the earthand thick darkness the peoples,but the Lord will arise upon you,and his glory will appear over you.Nations shall come to your lightand kings to the brightness of your dawn.Lift up your eyes and look around.\u201d&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":313,"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-312","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\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}