{"id":11650,"date":"2024-01-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11650"},"modified":"2024-01-10T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:14:51","slug":"guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11650","title":{"rendered":"Guests?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">We Are All Guests<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some Desperately Need Homes, NOW!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday 12 January 2024<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/12.EncampmentPoliceAtRemoval.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/12.EncampmentPoliceAtRemoval.jpg 512w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/12.EncampmentPoliceAtRemoval-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>  <style type=\"text\/css\">p { line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }p.western { font-size: 13pt }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }<\/style><p class=\"western\" align=\"center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10213526\/edmonton-rowland-road-homeless-encampment\/\"><i>globalnews.ca\/news\/10213526\/edmonton-rowland-road-homeless-encampment\/<\/i><\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201c<em>Edmonton police officers and city crews could be seen at a homeless encampment in the area of 95th Street and Rowland Road on Tuesday morning [9 January 2024]. Police and cleanup crews were met with resistance from people who live in the camp and from advocates who showed up to support them.\u201d Global News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Psalm 119:19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[or another translation: I am a guest on earth.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2 Corinthians 5:1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Words of Grace For Today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because we know that we have a home waiting for us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>after life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even if the earth is destroyed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even if the universe is destroyed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>does not give us an excuse to destroy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the earth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this universe!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are gifts from God<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to be treasured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life to be lived with integrity, kindness, and mercy for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The earth to be used and guarded from destruction so that future generations have a better earth to live on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The universe to be explored and admired and guarded from destruction of all kinds, because this is our home now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And God said life, the earth, and all the universe are Good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we ought to keep it all that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of bulldozing tent cities, the last, most secure place for many people who find themselves homeless in the cold of winter and the heat of summer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about making a home for them as well,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a good, safe, nurturing home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on earth?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Are All Guests Some Desperately Need Homes, NOW! Friday 12 January 2024 globalnews.ca\/news\/10213526\/edmonton-rowland-road-homeless-encampment\/ \u201cEdmonton police officers and city crews could be seen at a homeless encampment in the area of 95th Street and Rowland Road on Tuesday morning [9 January 2024]. Police and cleanup crews were met with resistance from people who live in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11650\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guests?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,56,86,62,30,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse","category-cold","category-hope","category-injustice","category-poverty-homelessness","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650","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=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11657,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions\/11657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}