{"id":396,"date":"2026-07-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=396"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:41:19","slug":"mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind"},"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\/2026\/06\/26-07-13-prairieplant-DSC_1483-byCherylBC-1200px-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-07-13-prairieplant-DSC_1483-byCherylBC-1200px-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-07-13-prairieplant-DSC_1483-byCherylBC-1200px-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-07-13-prairieplant-DSC_1483-byCherylBC-1200px-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-07-13-prairieplant-DSC_1483-byCherylBC-1200px-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-07-13-prairieplant-DSC_1483-byCherylBC-1200px-1-560x840.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-07-13-prairieplant-DSC_1483-byCherylBC-1200px-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cTo set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.\u201d <\/em><br>&#8211; Romans 8:6b (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 wp-block-paragraph\">Practice focusing your mind on God\u2019s Spirit <br>by saying this line from the Prayer of St. Francis <br>once an hour throughout the day: <br><strong>\u201cLord, make me an instrument of your peace.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.\u201d &#8211; Romans 8:6b (NRSVue) Activity Practice focusing your mind on God\u2019s Spirit by saying this line from the Prayer of St. Francis once an hour throughout the day: \u201cLord, make me an instrument of your peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":397,"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-396","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\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}