{"id":10595,"date":"2023-05-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10595"},"modified":"2023-05-03T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:42:51","slug":"great-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10595","title":{"rendered":"Great Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In A Single Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For Everyone.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Friday, May 5, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Finding Our Way,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Wondrously Blessed Way<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through Each Day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zechariah 3:9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven facets, I will engrave its inscription, says the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the guilt of this land in a single day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 John 2:2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

… and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

It is a great challenge to forgive someone who has done great damage to one\u2019s self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the murder of one\u2019s loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the foreign ruler who with no just cause invades one\u2019s country and decimates one\u2019s community and livelihood and security … and peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the liar who spreads lies and those who believe and retell such lies, until one\u2019s reputation is destroyed and one\u2019s way of life has become impossible leaving one living in the street or bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the corrupt police who kill people without recourse. Or the corrupt judge who sentences innocent people to jail and makes decisions that are not even supported by the lies brought as \u2018evidence\u2019 to court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people so traumatized and ruined by such evil doings is nothing new. It goes back to the beginning of human times. It will continue until there are no more humans to do such things to others. One such new story really is of no interest to most people, since the injustices only can continue to happen when and because almost all people accept these injustices as \u2018part of the woodwork\u2019 of life, tolerated as long as they are not directed against them, or protested against (but only by marginalized people, to whom people simply do not listen to.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God knows all these stories, from the beginning of time to the end of time. God knows such evil destroys not only the victims but the perpetrators. The best of life is still possible for the victims, if they are able to forgive the perpetrators (which is not to simply tolerate that such injustices continue, far from it.) The best of life is only possible for the perpetrators, if they recognize they are forgiven and are on that basis able to amend their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So God provides all that for us, makes it possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God forgives everyone, from the beginning of time to the end of time. God makes it possible for us to forgive as well, especially to forgive ourselves. And God makes it possible for us to amend our lives so that we can live lives blessed to be blessings for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God accomplishes this again and again in a single day for us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will we do in a single day to forgive the perpetrators who have destroyed our lives, to amend our lives, to share this abundant life with others, and to give God thanks for making a blessed life possible for us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In A Single Day For Everyone. Friday, May 5, 2023 Finding Our Way, Our Wondrously Blessed Way Through Each Day. Zechariah 3:9 For on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven facets, I will engrave its inscription, says the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the guilt … Continue reading “Great Works”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,23,98,34,46,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-lake","category-roadways","category-sacramental-mystic","category-tracks","category-trees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595","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=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10600,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions\/10600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}