{"id":436,"date":"2026-10-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=436"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:23:34","slug":"communion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/communion\/","title":{"rendered":"Communion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-05-DSC_0011-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-05-DSC_0011-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-05-DSC_0011-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-05-DSC_0011-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-05-DSC_0011-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-05-DSC_0011-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 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, <\/em><br><em>the love of God, and <\/em><br><em><strong>the communion of the Holy Spirit <\/strong><\/em><br><em>be with all of you.\u201d<\/em><br>&#8211;2 Corinthians 13:13 (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 wp-block-paragraph\">Communion with the Spirit of God is one of the blessings of a life of faith. This intimate relationship with the divine brings comfort, but also challenge. The power of the Spirit, like the wind that blows where it will, can move us into the unknown. Is there an unknown into which you are feeling called?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.\u201d&#8211;2 Corinthians 13:13 (NRSVue) Activity Communion with the Spirit of God is one of the blessings of a life of faith. This intimate relationship with the divine brings comfort, but also challenge. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437,"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-436","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\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}