{"id":352,"date":"2026-04-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=352"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:57:44","slug":"stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-06-PICT0306-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-06-PICT0306-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-06-PICT0306-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-06-PICT0306-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-768x874.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-06-PICT0306-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-560x637.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><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\"><em>\u201cEarly on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.\u201d<\/em> <br>\u2013 John 20:1 (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\">In this photo, a closed door in a stone wall blocks entry. In John 20, a large stone had blocked entry to Jesus\u2019 tomb but its mysterious removal opened the way for Mary Magdalene and the other disciples to see that the tomb was empty. As they shared that news with others, they became witnesses to the world\u2014Christ is risen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Thinking about your own life, what \u201cclosed doors\u201d block entry into new life in Christ? <br>Pray for stones to be rolled away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEarly on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.\u201d \u2013 John 20:1 (NRSVue) Activity In this photo, a closed door in a stone wall blocks entry. In John 20, a large stone had blocked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","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=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}