{"id":10424,"date":"2023-04-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2023-04-02T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T19:26:20","slug":"fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10424","title":{"rendered":"Fool’s Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You Bet!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, April 1, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Finding Our Fools\u2019 Paths … Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Samuel 12:22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name\u2019s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Timothy 2:13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

if we are faithless, he remains faithful \u2014 for he cannot deny himself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One might say to the passages today that since God is most powerful and therefore God can do anything, including deny himself, and through history God certainly did cast away God\u2019s people in many and various ways …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April Fool\u2019s!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is no small April Fool\u2019s joke on us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It goes to the heart and foundation of life and faith and hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it is all an April Fool\u2019s joke on us, what is left?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice that God walks with us, right in step with us, carrying us when we falter, suffering with us when we suffer and rejoicing when we rejoice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heart and foundation of our life and faith and hope does not depend on us or the scripture getting it right all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, God created us knowing full well that we would get it oh so terribly wrong all too often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today it is enough that God works a few miracles through us for others, so that others may live knowing God\u2019s blessings are also for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and be amazed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And don\u2019t forget to breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God created us so that we work best when we breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And scripture got it right: God is pleased to create a people for God\u2019s self, that people includes all people of all time. In that God is always faithful, by choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a choice, eh?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering all the fools who get it so wrong, what a choice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You Bet! Saturday, April 1, 2023 Finding Our Fools\u2019 Paths … Daily. First Samuel 12:22 For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name\u2019s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself. 2 Timothy 2:13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful \u2014 for he … Continue reading “Fool’s Day?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,56,86,29,34,71,46,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breathe","category-cold","category-hope","category-perspective","category-sacramental-mystic","category-sunset","category-tracks","category-trees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10431,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions\/10431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}