{"id":12291,"date":"2025-03-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12291"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:39:03","slug":"singing-and-saying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12291","title":{"rendered":"Singing and Saying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To Be Known and Loved<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sunday, March 23, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By God &#8211; Nothing Is Greater.<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/23.PS20230305_004624099.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/23.PS20230305_004624099.jpg 288w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/23.PS20230305_004624099-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>See the Light? The Light Sees You!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Psalm 59:17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>O my strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Acts of the Apostles 26:22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To this day I have had help from God, and so I stand here, testifying to both small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would take place:&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Words of Grace for Today &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all have a basic need to be seen, known, and loved for who we are, just as we are, warts and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we accept that God sees, knows and loves us, just as we are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then life becomes very interesting, very challenging, very rooted, and wildly unpredictable,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for God not only sees, knows and loves us, but also<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sends us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">to engage all kinds of people, to see them, know them, and to love them as God does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Engaging with others does change us at our roots, and gives us a little better view to God\u2019s perspective on us (all people), our lives, on this planet, and on the entire universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Singing and Saying what the prophets and Moses did &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Singing and Saying what God does in the past, today, and promises to do in the future &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Singing and Saying like that reflects that when we engage with others, actually keeping silent and listening intently, there is nothing predictable about where, how, and why God will take us today and all our tomorrows,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">only that God\u2019s love will always be there, as God walks right beside us into and through it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yep, that brings us to Singing and Saying, all day and all night long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Be Known and Loved Sunday, March 23, 2025 By God &#8211; Nothing Is Greater. See the Light? The Light Sees You! Psalm 59:17 O my strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love. . Acts of the Apostles 26:22 To this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Singing and Saying&#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":[83,88,34,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-and-light","category-love-and-hope","category-sacramental-mystic","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","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=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12303,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions\/12303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}