{"id":12391,"date":"2025-05-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12391"},"modified":"2025-05-20T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T17:54:28","slug":"servants-happy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12391","title":{"rendered":"Servants, Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Birthday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, May 20, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Always Storms Threaten,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weeds Can Slow Us,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still Jesus Calls Us<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onward to …<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psalm 119:36<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turn our hearts to your decrees, and not to selfish gain.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titus 2:7-8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Show yourself in all respects a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity, and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace for Today –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus calls and bids us die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dietrich Bonh\u00f6ffer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus calls each one of us, to different lives of service,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

always self-sacrificial service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not self accomplishments, nor selfishly accumulating wealth, power, or fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just service,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

bringing the basics of life, and the extravagant gifts of the Holy Spirit, to all people, especially those most in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where of where<\/p>\n\n\n\n

are you going this day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Jesus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or off into the wilderness so large it swallows up souls day after day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Birthday Saturday, May 20, 2025 Simon Always Storms Threaten, Weeds Can Slow Us, Still Jesus Calls Us Onward to … Psalm 119:36 Turn our hearts to your decrees, and not to selfish gain. . Titus 2:7-8 Show yourself in all respects a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity, and sound … Continue reading “Servants, Happy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,87,23,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-joy","category-lake","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391","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=12391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12393,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12391\/revisions\/12393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}