From Ourselves?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/05.PS20241004_012312665.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nRight there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nHe was yelling right there at the top of his lungs,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong?<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\nEverything!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nLamentations 1:20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSee, O Lord, how distressed I am; my stomach churns, my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
John 4:29<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe woman said: Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?<\/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
We make so much trouble for ourselves, giving us cause for so many lamentations, and agreements with the passage from Lamentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We wait with great expectation worn weary into apathy for the One who can save us from everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is so easy to scream or resign or fight, because our world economy sings only one tune: that of powerful greed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greed feeds us selfishness, insatiable hungers, and a callous disregard for all creation. As greed permeates everything around us, it is difficult to sing the songs of God\u2019s Kingdom. Each day we need new images to jostle our hearts, minds, and imaginations to recognize God at work around us, and in us, and through us for others. We need to be reminded that Jesus is our song each day on this wonder-filled journey. Otherwise, drowned in greed-fed-fears, we only ramp up the heart-and-mind-stopping panic around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How can we find freedom from greed? How can we find a blessed tomorrow from today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Encountering a man ranting and raving loudly in the woods where people come to camp for free, I asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s the problem?\u201d The guy stopped a second before screaming, \u201cEverything!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is your Everything? At the checkout till they keep asking: \u201cIs that everything?\u201d with a wink, I respond \u201cNo, the universe is a big place and I can\u2019t afford everything. I\u2019ll just take these few things, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our times are as tumultuous as any. It\u2019s difficult to tell who is or will be a threat. Southern neighbours are now irrational and unpredictable. Last year\u2019s extreme weather keeps becoming this year\u2019s norm. Wildfires wipe out homes, communities, and livelihoods, and disrupt even more lives with deadly smoke, planting time-bombs in our lungs and blood. It\u2019s difficult to tell what is safe, what is sure to be lost, and where one can take even a short rest from the tumult. We do know that our future, like a wild rapids, is going to be more difficult, dangerous, and full of surprises from new directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet God knew all this would be so in our times, as God has known about every time in the past, and knows about every time to come. God created us with the only real security for life in this universe: God\u2019s own assurance that, come what may, God is with us through it all. And God sent God\u2019s own Son to save us from our own sins and the evil that permeates the world. Each day God calls us to allow ourselves to be dandled in safety on God\u2019s lap in this New Creation. Each day the Holy Spirit sends us out to share the wonders of God\u2019s steadfast love with all who need it. And in the end, God will call us home, to sing our thanks again, for we are home, home with the saints in light, home at last, home at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that<\/strong> is our Everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The One To Save Us Saturday, July 5, 2025 From Ourselves? Right there. He was yelling right there at the top of his lungs, \u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong?! Everything!\u201d Lamentations 1:20 See, O Lord, how distressed I am; my stomach churns, my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the … Continue reading “Is He The One?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23,88,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breathe","category-lake","category-love-and-hope","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556","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=12556"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12572,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12556\/revisions\/12572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nRight there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n He was yelling right there at the top of his lungs,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Everything!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lamentations 1:20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n See, O Lord, how distressed I am; my stomach churns, my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n .<\/p>\n\n\n\n John 4:29<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The woman said: Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?<\/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 We make so much trouble for ourselves, giving us cause for so many lamentations, and agreements with the passage from Lamentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We wait with great expectation worn weary into apathy for the One who can save us from everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is so easy to scream or resign or fight, because our world economy sings only one tune: that of powerful greed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Greed feeds us selfishness, insatiable hungers, and a callous disregard for all creation. As greed permeates everything around us, it is difficult to sing the songs of God\u2019s Kingdom. Each day we need new images to jostle our hearts, minds, and imaginations to recognize God at work around us, and in us, and through us for others. We need to be reminded that Jesus is our song each day on this wonder-filled journey. Otherwise, drowned in greed-fed-fears, we only ramp up the heart-and-mind-stopping panic around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How can we find freedom from greed? How can we find a blessed tomorrow from today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Encountering a man ranting and raving loudly in the woods where people come to camp for free, I asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s the problem?\u201d The guy stopped a second before screaming, \u201cEverything!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is your Everything? At the checkout till they keep asking: \u201cIs that everything?\u201d with a wink, I respond \u201cNo, the universe is a big place and I can\u2019t afford everything. I\u2019ll just take these few things, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our times are as tumultuous as any. It\u2019s difficult to tell who is or will be a threat. Southern neighbours are now irrational and unpredictable. Last year\u2019s extreme weather keeps becoming this year\u2019s norm. Wildfires wipe out homes, communities, and livelihoods, and disrupt even more lives with deadly smoke, planting time-bombs in our lungs and blood. It\u2019s difficult to tell what is safe, what is sure to be lost, and where one can take even a short rest from the tumult. We do know that our future, like a wild rapids, is going to be more difficult, dangerous, and full of surprises from new directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet God knew all this would be so in our times, as God has known about every time in the past, and knows about every time to come. God created us with the only real security for life in this universe: God\u2019s own assurance that, come what may, God is with us through it all. And God sent God\u2019s own Son to save us from our own sins and the evil that permeates the world. Each day God calls us to allow ourselves to be dandled in safety on God\u2019s lap in this New Creation. Each day the Holy Spirit sends us out to share the wonders of God\u2019s steadfast love with all who need it. And in the end, God will call us home, to sing our thanks again, for we are home, home with the saints in light, home at last, home at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that<\/strong> is our Everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The One To Save Us Saturday, July 5, 2025 From Ourselves? Right there. He was yelling right there at the top of his lungs, \u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong?! Everything!\u201d Lamentations 1:20 See, O Lord, how distressed I am; my stomach churns, my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. 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\u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong?<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n