{"id":410,"date":"2026-08-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=410"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:52:47","slug":"silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-10-PICT6729-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-10-PICT6729-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-10-PICT6729-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-10-PICT6729-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-10-PICT6729-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x747.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/08\/26-08-10-PICT6729-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><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>\u201cHe said, \u2018Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.\u2019 Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake, and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.\u201d<\/em><br>&#8211;1 Kings 19:11-12 (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\">Find a place where you can experience silence, perhaps in an isolated corner of your home, or in a place like a library, or outdoors in a park away from the noise of traffic or other intrusions. In that silence, seek the presence of God.<\/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>\u201cHe said, \u2018Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.\u2019 Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":411,"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-410","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\/410","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=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}