{"id":10723,"date":"2023-06-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10723"},"modified":"2023-05-30T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:12:30","slug":"yearning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=10723","title":{"rendered":"Yearning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Deeply<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, June 1, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Looking Up,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

and Seeing<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Star<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above the Setting Moon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah 25:8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

… he will swallow up death for ever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philippians 3:10-11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

I want to know …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such yearning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such yearning that changes the taste and scents of each day, each hour, each minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to know … but what do we want to know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So much of life is filled with yearning for the comforts (or things towards comforts) and pleasures that this life offers only with such wiffs, and then they are taken from us, often destroying our ability to yearn with clarity for what will bring health and life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to know … Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that is something unlike other yearnings, for it is not for comforts or improvements or anything quickly withering into the evening fog. This yearning to know Christ, the power of his resurrection<\/em> and (then comes the key to it all – the all that is life and death and existence itself) the sharing of Christ\u2019s sufferings<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the key to life: to know Christ by sharing in his suffering. His sufferings were unearned, but offered in order that others might live, and live free and abundantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This yearning takes us outside ourselves and extends all that we are toward giving to others; giving everything we can to as many other people as we can so that more and more people will know the power of Christ\u2019s resurrection in their own lives (the hope that moves us beyond living waiting for death).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This yearning is to see that God with a word, has wiped away our tears and disgrace, and the tears and disgrace of all people, and replaced it with the joy and thanksgiving of living fuelled by the power of Christ: self-sacrificial, unconditional love for all people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May that be our days, and this day. Our hours, and this hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deeply Thursday, June 1, 2023 Looking Up, and Seeing the Star Above the Setting Moon. Isaiah 25:8 … he will swallow up death for ever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has … Continue reading “Yearning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,86,27,64,34,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-hope","category-moon","category-night","category-sacramental-mystic","category-sky","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723","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=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10724,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions\/10724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}