By Bekah Houff<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One:<\/strong> NYC 2026, as you leave this mountain\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two: <\/strong>When you return to your homes\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: <\/strong>When you return to your churches\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two: <\/strong>When you walk into your schools\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL:<\/strong> I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n One:<\/strong> When you are with your friends\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two: <\/strong>When you meet strangers… <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: <\/strong>When life feels joyful\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two: <\/strong>When life feels uncertain\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: <\/strong>When you feel strong… <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two: <\/strong>And when you don\u2019t feel like shining at all\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: <\/strong>Because the light of Christ goes with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n God does not stay on the mountain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n God shines through you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NYC youth\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>I am light! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Two: <\/strong>Church of the Brethren\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: We are light!<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: <\/strong>Go into the world and shine through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Go with courage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Go with compassion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Go with joy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Go with Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One: <\/strong>And may the God who has shined through us this week continue to shine\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n through us wherever we go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For the glory of God and for everyone whom our light touches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: <\/strong>AMEN! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bekah Houff One: NYC 2026, as you leave this mountain\u2026 ALL: I am light! Two: When you return to your homes\u2026 ALL: I am light! One: When you return to your churches\u2026 ALL: I am light! Two: When you walk into your schools\u2026 ALL: I am light! One: When you are with your friends\u2026 ALL: I am light! Two: When you meet strangers… ALL: I am light! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[21,25,20,33,72],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benediction","category-litany","tag-bekah-houff","tag-light","tag-matthew","tag-matthew-514-16","tag-sending"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}