{"id":11535,"date":"2023-12-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11535"},"modified":"2023-12-07T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T16:48:14","slug":"screw-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11535","title":{"rendered":"Screw Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, December 7, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Artist\u2019s impression of a baby star still surrounded by a protoplanetary disc in which planets are forming. Using ESO\u2019s very successful HARPS spectrograph, a team of astronomers has found that Sun-like stars which host planets have destroyed their lithium much more efficiently than planet-free stars. This finding does not only shed light on the low levels of this chemical element in the Sun, solving a long-standing mystery, but also provides astronomers with a very efficient way to pick out the stars most likely to host planets. It is not clear what causes the lithium to be destroyed. The general idea is that the planets or the presence of the protoplanetary disc disturb the interior of the star, bringing the lithium deeper down into the star than usual, into regions where the temperature is so hot that it is destroyed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

God\u2019s Light Shines in Every Corner,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Where We Think We\u2019ve Hidden Our Sins<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forgiving, Cleansing, and Purifying Us<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judges 10:10<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the Israelites cried to the Lord, saying, \u2018We have sinned against you, because we have abandoned our God and have worshipped the Baals.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke 1:76-77<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

It is more comfortable in the short run, to hide from and deny our sins, but<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But they catch up with us, and slowly devour us, unless<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless we confess them and are forgiven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This God promises to do for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the Good News that Jesus came to demonstrate with his living among us as one of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the Good News that we are given to share wherever we go with everyone we encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that many people will like the call to confess their sins, especially when they (blindly) think that they have \u2018gotten away with\u2019 their sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still this is the God\u2019s gift to us all: forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without it we slowly are consumed by our own sins and by others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So today (as every day)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we start again with confession,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and continue with forgiving others, and ourselves,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

repeating that all day long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therein is life abundant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All Thursday, December 7, 2023 God\u2019s Light Shines in Every Corner, Even Where We Think We\u2019ve Hidden Our Sins Forgiving, Cleansing, and Purifying Us Judges 10:10 So the Israelites cried to the Lord, saying, \u2018We have sinned against you, because we have abandoned our God and have worshipped the Baals.\u2019 Luke 1:76-77 And you, child, … Continue reading “Screw Ups”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535","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=11535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11545,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11535\/revisions\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}