{"id":11823,"date":"2024-03-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11823"},"modified":"2024-03-19T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:14:34","slug":"memetic-desires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11823","title":{"rendered":"Memetic Desires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Or God\u2019s Way?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, March 20, 2024<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Dreary Woods, Wishing For Someone Else\u2019 Life?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living in God\u2019s Country, a Paradise?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 116:12<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What shall I return to the Lord for all his bounty to me?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke 17:15-16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus\u2019 feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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While so much of what goes on around us, towards us, and finally in us has to do with insecurity, and our fruitless efforts to escape its ugly claws on our hearts and minds, there is nothing so refreshing for our souls as to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a) take a vacation to a warm, sandy, sunny beach in the Caribbean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

b) win an all expenses paid ski vacation to a destination of our choosing and at a time of our choosing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

c) inherit $100,000,000?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

d) move into one\u2019s dream house with views to the mountains out the front windows and over a river valley where the sunrises each morning, with no mortgage, a gift from a secret admirer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e) …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, stop that crap produced by generations subjected to memetic desires through advertising and others \u2018possessing\u2019 what we come to want and then need, until we use innocent scapegoats to resolve our misunderstood desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What God offers is life, life at its best!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All we need to wish for is the continued ability to be thankful for all we have already, gifts from God\u2019s good hand and gracious dealings with us undeserving, sinful people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filled with thanks, our days progress with less outrageously unfounded covetousness and conflict – outward with other people, and inward with our own hearts and minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank God for thankfulness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and may we have a greater dose of it each day, if you please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or God\u2019s Way? Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Dreary Woods, Wishing For Someone Else\u2019 Life? Or Living in God\u2019s Country, a Paradise? Psalm 116:12 What shall I return to the Lord for all his bounty to me? Luke 17:15-16 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a … Continue reading “Memetic Desires”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thanks","category-trees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823","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=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11827,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions\/11827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}