{"id":361,"date":"2026-04-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=361"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:03:25","slug":"open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/open\/","title":{"rendered":"Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-27-DSC_0886-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-27-DSC_0886-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-27-DSC_0886-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-27-DSC_0886-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x522.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-27-DSC_0886-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x380.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/03\/26-04-27-DSC_0886-McDowellGrove-Naperville-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 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>\u201cWere not our hearts burning within us while he [Jesus] was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?\u201d<\/em> <br>&#8211; Luke 24:32b (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\">Allow the scriptures to be opened to you. <br>Find a Bible\u2014either a physical book or an online app or digital copy\u2014and open it at random. <br><strong>Does a particular verse come into focus for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWere not our hearts burning within us while he [Jesus] was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?\u201d &#8211; Luke 24:32b (NRSVue) Activity Allow the scriptures to be opened to you. Find a Bible\u2014either a physical book or an online app or digital copy\u2014and open it at random.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":362,"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-361","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\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}