{"id":12531,"date":"2025-06-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12531"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:29:14","slug":"trying-to-get-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12531","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Get Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From What? From Whom?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, June 27, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">To What? To Whom?<\/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\/06\/27.PS20250624_111334229.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/27.PS20250624_111334229.jpg 288w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/27.PS20250624_111334229-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Made for this!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Living in the fog,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>seeing the many woven webs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>of humans, too.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Samuel 2:6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Romans 14:8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord&#8217;s.<\/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>So much is wasted in life trying to get free from things and people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and especially God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The real challenge and the greatest waste is trying to be free for something or for someone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>while trying to be free from God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we were made to be free<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from everything<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>except God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were created to be slaves to God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and Jesus made it plain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we are given life to give life to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus slaves to God<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we are servants to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the most fought against of all the wasted human efforts through all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s wasting your day away today? The same old same old?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of have you surrendered<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to Jesus\u2019 Way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God\u2019s unconditional love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give it a go<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or rather a surrender<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and life will never be the same<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>life will be oh so good,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but never easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From What? From Whom? Friday, June 27, 2025 To What? To Whom? Made for this! Living in the fog, seeing the many woven webs of humans, too. First Samuel 2:6 The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. . Romans 14:8 If we live, we live to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trying to Get Free&#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":[5,59,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-fog-weather","category-grace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531","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=12531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12537,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions\/12537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}