{"id":11914,"date":"2024-09-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11914"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T17:57:56","slug":"hemmed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=11914","title":{"rendered":"Hemmed In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On All Sides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, September 3, 2024<\/h1>\n\n\n
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Finding the Path Home?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out There Somewhere?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 139:5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acts of the Apostles 17:27-28<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him\u2014though indeed he is not far from each one of us. For \u201cIn him we live and move and have our being\u201d; as even some of your own poets have said, \u201cFor we too are his offspring.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trying to escape from the Wildernesses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of poverty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of hunger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of harassment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of threats<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of apathy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of depression<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of other people\u2019s wildernesses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of the desert of a parched soul;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve all tried at one time or another to escape<\/p>\n\n\n\n

or at least minimize the parched heat, or the soppy wet floods, or the thunder, lightening, and wind storms of an angry planet or soul that seems out to do us in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


While we may try on our own, in real desperation, as even the least of believers to seek God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

yet God is not to be found, for God is before us, behind us, above us, under us, and to each side of us, walking with us through all the deserts and wildernesses that we traverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For we are God\u2019s children, also this day, with all it\u2019s challenges and things to be rightfully feared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No other solution is needed, and we do not escape at all. God gives us what it takes to make it through, for even if death finds us, and takes us, there God gathers us in<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to a home like none we have yet known. Home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be nice to have a home even in the wilderness, or maybe especially in the wilderness, eh?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On All Sides Tuesday, September 3, 2024 Finding the Path Home? Out There Somewhere? Psalm 139:5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Acts of the Apostles 17:27-28 so that they would search for God and perhaps grope for him and find him\u2014though indeed he is not far from … Continue reading “Hemmed In”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,86,23,63,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold","category-hope","category-lake","category-morning-time-of-day","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914","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=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11931,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/11931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}