{"id":12361,"date":"2025-04-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12361"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:42:41","slug":"oh-my-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12361","title":{"rendered":"Oh My Goodness!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Or Rather God\u2019s Goodness,<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday, April 14, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spread across all creation!<\/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\/04\/14.PS20250407_014948962.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/14.PS20250407_014948962.jpg 288w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/14.PS20250407_014948962-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Always Centre,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Shining Gloriously,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>God\u2019s Steadfast Love!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Psalm 33:5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Acts of the Apostles 14:17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8230; yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing good\u2014giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, and filling you with food and your hearts with joy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words of Grace for Today &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodness received and enjoyed and given thanks for,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or Goodness received and ignored and complaints made high and wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Goodness of God pervades all creation, and yet we fail to notice it, even in stark contrast to all the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unrighteousness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>injustice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and enduring hate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that humans play out against each other,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like shadows hiding from the good light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like shadows that point us to the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May the soft rains of spring fall before the fires of wild woods burn and spread smoke across all that is good and bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May the steadfast love of God penetrate our thick skins, hard hearts, and dense skulls, and bring us to give thanks for all that nourishes us and gives us unmatched cause for joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what God made us for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or Rather God\u2019s Goodness, Monday, April 14, 2025 Spread across all creation! Always Centre, Shining Gloriously, God\u2019s Steadfast Love! Psalm 33:5 He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord. . Acts of the Apostles 14:17 &#8230; yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh My Goodness!&#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":[83,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-and-light","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361","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=12361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12366,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12361\/revisions\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}