{"id":442,"date":"2026-10-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=442"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:41:14","slug":"chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"857\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-19-1000014108-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-857x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-19-1000014108-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-857x1024.jpg 857w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-19-1000014108-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-19-1000014108-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-768x917.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-19-1000014108-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px-560x669.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/10\/26-10-19-1000014108-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-900px.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cFor we know, brothers and sisters beloved by God, that he has chosen you.\u201d<\/em><br>1 Thessalonians 1:4 (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\">God\u2019s choosing is beyond our knowing\u2014who can say why we are beloved of God? All we can know is that we are loved, despite our faults and perhaps even despite our best qualities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">List what you think your three best qualities are, and then list your three worst faults. After you write each one\u2014best and worst\u2014say aloud, \u201cGod loves me and chooses me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor we know, brothers and sisters beloved by God, that he has chosen you.\u201d1 Thessalonians 1:4 (NRSVue) Activity God\u2019s choosing is beyond our knowing\u2014who can say why we are beloved of God? All we can know is that we are loved, despite our faults and perhaps even despite our best qualities. List what you think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":443,"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-442","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\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}