{"id":12722,"date":"2025-11-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12722"},"modified":"2025-11-29T11:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:43:15","slug":"the-new-year-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12722","title":{"rendered":"The New Year Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bring In the Blues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday, November 30, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">And All Will Wake in the Love and Light<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"236\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/30.PS20251127_164036_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/30.PS20251127_164036_resized.jpg 236w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/30.PS20251127_164036_resized-138x300.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 85vw, 236px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Of Christ,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Like Children Filled With Expectation of<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Impossible Things,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>for These Impossible Times.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeremiah 31:34<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, \u201cKnow the Lord,\u201d for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew 21:15-16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did, and heard the children crying out in the temple, \u201cHosanna to the Son of David,\u201d they became angry and said to him, \u201cDo you hear what these are saying?\u201d Jesus said to them, \u201cYes; have you never read,<br>\u2018Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies<br>you have prepared praise for yourself\u2019?\u201d<\/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>As another New Church Year begins, the wind blows and the colour blue for Advent arrives. The blue of waiting and boredom, the blue of royalty, the blue of despondency, the blue of deep yearning, the blue of hope, the blue of clear skies, the blue of the water into which we are baptized. These are the blues of Advent, four Sundays of preparing, as sombre as our other season of preparation, Lent. Just as Lent is more than giving up things, so Advent is more than waiting for the celebrations to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the days (once again and always) to acknowledge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that in our baptisms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God has equipped us to know the Lord, for our sins are forgiven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we are freed to share God\u2019s good things with everyone, especially those in need, and to sing God\u2019s praises<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring In the Blues Sunday, November 30, 2025 And All Will Wake in the Love and Light Of Christ, Like Children Filled With Expectation of Impossible Things, for These Impossible Times. Jeremiah 31:34 No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, \u201cKnow the Lord,\u201d for they shall all know me, from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=12722\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The New Year Winds&#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":[61,116,71,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagine","category-paths","category-sunset","category-trees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722","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=12722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12723,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12722\/revisions\/12723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}