{"id":358,"date":"2026-04-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=358"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:57:23","slug":"bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/bounty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-20-bees-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x763.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-20-bees-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x763.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-20-bees-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-20-bees-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x572.png 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-20-bees-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x417.png 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-20-bees-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><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>\u201cWhat shall I return to the Lord<br>for all his bounty to me?<br>I will lift up the cup of salvation<br>and call on the name of the Lord.\u201d<\/em><br>&#8211; Psalm 116:12-13 (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\">Wednesday, April 22, is Earth Day\u2014an opportunity to celebrate and give thanks for the amazing gift of God\u2019s Creation. In Psalm 116, the poet asks what he must do in return for this bounty that God has freely given. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This week, consider the beauty and bounty of the earth and all its creatures, and ask the same question: <strong>What is my obligation, in the midst of God\u2019s good Creation?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat shall I return to the Lordfor all his bounty to me?I will lift up the cup of salvationand call on the name of the Lord.\u201d&#8211; Psalm 116:12-13 (NRSVue) Activity Wednesday, April 22, is Earth Day\u2014an opportunity to celebrate and give thanks for the amazing gift of God\u2019s Creation. In Psalm 116, the poet asks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359,"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-358","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\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}