{"id":11281,"date":"2023-10-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11281"},"modified":"2023-10-01T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T16:27:35","slug":"forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11281","title":{"rendered":"Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dark Forces<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, October 3, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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We Try To Catch Power From the Dark,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Real Power Only Comes from the Light of Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 16:1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 6:13<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

There are dark forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are dark forces at play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are dark forces at play again this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are dark forces at play again this day and we like to think they are in others, aimed at us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we can just avoid those others, we will be free of such dark and dreadful forces that eat us up, spit us out, and leave us to die, slowly, ever so slowly in pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are dark forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are dark forces at play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are dark forces at play again this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are dark forces at play again this day aimed so deceptively into us by forces we cannot resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They play with all our hopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They play with all our yearnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They play with us as toys led to the battle and our slaughter by our own weapons of deception and greed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have no defence against such dark forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We become the \u2018others\u2019 who aim these dark forces at others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can only pray, God save us, in you we take refuge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Save us from such trials. Save us from the Evil One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let the Light of Christ Shine on us, in us, and through us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to all<\/p>\n\n\n\n

those<\/p>\n\n\n\n

caught<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in the Dark,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

caught<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by the Dark Forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dark Forces Tuesday, October 3, 2023 We Try To Catch Power From the Dark, But Real Power Only Comes from the Light of Christ. Psalm 16:1 Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge. Matthew 6:13 And do not bring us to the time of trial, but rescue us from the evil one. … Continue reading “Forces”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,18,62,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-and-light","category-grace","category-injustice","category-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281","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=11281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11285,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281\/revisions\/11285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}