{"id":321,"date":"2026-01-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=321"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:00:47","slug":"darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-26-DSC_0450-byCherylBC-1200px-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-26-DSC_0450-byCherylBC-1200px-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-26-DSC_0450-byCherylBC-1200px-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-26-DSC_0450-byCherylBC-1200px-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-26-DSC_0450-byCherylBC-1200px-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-26-DSC_0450-byCherylBC-1200px-560x840.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-01-26-DSC_0450-byCherylBC-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe people who walked in darkness<br>have seen a great light;<br>those who lived in a land of deep darkness\u2014<br>on them light has shined.\u201d <\/em><br>&#8211; Isaiah 9:2 (NRSVue)<\/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\">Remember the last time you walked in darkness\u2014maybe when getting up in the middle of the night, or when the electricity went out during a storm, for example. Did you feel unsure, uncertain, or even fearful? When light shines out in darkness\u2014physically, emotionally, or spiritually\u2014what does it feel like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe people who walked in darknesshave seen a great light;those who lived in a land of deep darkness\u2014on them light has shined.\u201d &#8211; Isaiah 9:2 (NRSVue) Activity Remember the last time you walked in darkness\u2014maybe when getting up in the middle of the night, or when the electricity went out during a storm, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322,"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-321","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\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}