{"id":12681,"date":"2025-10-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12681"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:19:59","slug":"blessings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12681","title":{"rendered":"Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For All,<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Friday, October 17, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young and Old, maybe?<\/h3>\n\n\n
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When All The Colour Has Drained Out of Life …<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genesis 32:26<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he said, \u201cLet me go, for the day is breaking.\u201d But Jacob said, \u201cI will not let you go, unless you bless me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Matthew 19:13a<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then little children were being brought to him in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray.<\/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

Youthful Jacob is able to demand a blessing from the angel he\u2019s struggled against all night. Got a lame hip for it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a blessing in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus distributes blessings to the children freely, widely, readily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but<\/p>\n\n\n\n

is there a blessing for the old people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some cultures revere their older people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some respect them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ours ignores them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe there\u2019s a blessing in that, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For All, Friday, October 17, 2025 Young and Old, maybe? When All The Colour Has Drained Out of Life … Genesis 32:26 Then he said, \u201cLet me go, for the day is breaking.\u201d But Jacob said, \u201cI will not let you go, unless you bless me.\u201d . Matthew 19:13a Then little children were being brought … Continue reading “Blessings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,86,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall","category-hope","category-shore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681","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=12681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12686,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681\/revisions\/12686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}