{"id":11730,"date":"2024-01-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11730"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T20:05:34","slug":"things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11730","title":{"rendered":"Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Friday 19 January 2024<\/h1>\n\n\n
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No Matter How Many Planes We Have ….<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proverbs 30:8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that I need,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 Timothy 6:7-8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

… for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it; but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Words of Grace For Today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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The things of life are many,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but the things necessary for life are far fewer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

clean air, clean water, nourishing food, adequate clothing, sufficient shelter, meaningful labour, and love (the ability to love others and that others love us.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All these are things that we receive as gifts from God, added to the gifts of life (given to us at birth) and the Holy Spirit (given to us at baptism), forgiveness and renewal (given to us each day as God promised us and made clear in Jesus\u2019 life, death, and resurrection).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have since the beginning of time fooled ourselves into thinking that we possess many things in our lifetimes, and that these things make a great difference in our lives, for ourselves and among other people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But<\/p>\n\n\n\n

all that we think we possess are really only things entrusted to us by their owner, God. So many things God entrusts to us, that we will be good stewards of them, giving life to as many people as possible, with our voices, hands, and feet, working, working, working<\/p>\n\n\n\n

working out God\u2019s love and mercy, grace and generosity, forgiveness and renewal for all people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What works against life for all people are lying and falsehoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If only we could leave them out of life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like all people, what we really need is<\/p>\n\n\n\n

everything God gives us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Life Friday 19 January 2024 No Matter How Many Planes We Have …. Proverbs 30:8 Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that I need, 1 Timothy 6:7-8 … for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out … Continue reading “Things”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,88,39,43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-grace","category-love-and-hope","category-sky","category-summer","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730","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=11730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11730\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}