{"id":802,"date":"2015-04-05T06:24:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T15:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=802"},"modified":"2015-04-03T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T01:29:59","slug":"apr-5-easter-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Apr 5 &#8211; Easter Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Apr 5 &#8211; Easter Sunday\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=802\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/easter-cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-803\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/easter-cross.jpg\" alt=\"easter cross\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When everything was dark<br \/>\nand it seemed that the sun would never shine again,<br \/>\nyour love broke through.<\/p>\n<p>Your love was too strong,<br \/>\ntoo wide,<br \/>\ntoo deep<br \/>\nfor death to hold.<\/p>\n<p>The sparks cast by your love<br \/>\ndance and spread<br \/>\nand burst forth<br \/>\nwith resurrection light.<\/p>\n<p>Gracious God,<br \/>\nWe praise you for the light of new life<br \/>\nmade possible through Jesus.<br \/>\nWe praise you for the light of new life<br \/>\nthat shone on the first witnesses of resurrection.<br \/>\nWe praise you for the light of new life<br \/>\nthat continues to shine in our hearts today.<\/p>\n<p>We pray that the Easter light of life, hope and joy,<br \/>\nwill live in us each day;<br \/>\nand that we will be bearers of that light<br \/>\ninto the lives of others.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n<p>This is an Easter Morning Prayer used in the Methodist Church in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When everything was dark and it seemed that the sun would never shine again, your love broke through. Your love was too strong, too wide, too deep for death to hold. The sparks cast by your love dance and spread and burst forth with resurrection light. Gracious God, We praise you for the light of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apr 5 &#8211; Easter Sunday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}