{"id":11554,"date":"2023-12-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11554"},"modified":"2023-12-09T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T20:21:33","slug":"the-only-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11554","title":{"rendered":"The Only One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Only One Listening<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Monday, December 11, 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/11.BCCutblock.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/11.BCCutblock.jpg 512w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/11.BCCutblock-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A logging road in the Klanawa Valley on western Vancouver Island divides two landscapes: a cutblock on the right, and old-growth trees that are part of a wildlife protection area on the left. Tara Carman\/CBC<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/newsinteractives\/features\/the-forest-beside-the-clear-cut\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/newsinteractives\/features\/the-forest-beside-the-clear-c<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>No One Listens and Cutblocks Eat Away at Our Precious, <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Climate Saving, Old Growth Forests<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Psalm 38:<\/strong><strong>9-1<\/strong><strong>1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>O Lord, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you. My heart throbs, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes\u2014it also has gone from me. My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbours stand far off.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 John 5:14<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Job knew it, as many have since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is that experience that everyone and everything has turned against one, even life itself, and there is no one that hears. No one that listens. No one that understands. No one that cares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Except<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That God hears, listens, understands, cares and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God even responds, providing what we need to survive even those dark times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And survive we do, until the sun shines brightly again in our lives and we have all the listening, hearing, understanding, and caring we require<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">in order to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Give God thanks with our every breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Only One Listening Monday, December 11, 2023 No One Listens and Cutblocks Eat Away at Our Precious, Climate Saving, Old Growth Forests Psalm 38:9-11 O Lord, all my longing is known to you; my sighing is not hidden from you. 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