{"id":9740,"date":"2022-11-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9740"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:18:12","slug":"looking-or-already-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9740","title":{"rendered":"Looking or Already Seeing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thursday 24 November 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Looking afar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

we may search for<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

the \u2018colour of life\u2019 elsewhere,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doch God has put all blessings<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

among us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah 49:8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus says the Lord:
In a time of favour I have answered you, on a day of salvation I have helped you;
I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke 17:21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

N<\/em>or will they say, \u201cLook, here it is!\u201d or \u201cThere it is!\u201d For, in fact, the kingdom of God is among you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the world teaches us to find our way,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

our way in the world to success, to happiness, to comfort, to privilege, to contentment, to blessings, to prosperity, to [fill in what we all chase], and to find our way to God,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus turns that all around, inside out, upside down (well, right side up, as it turns out) and shows us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we need not \u2018find\u2019 our way,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

because God walks with us, and God is among us, and the Holy Spirit leads us, comforts us, provides us happiness, contentment, unending blessings, and all that is good for us, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

because God has claimed us and established among us God\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is less for our benefit, than for those who see us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so that they may know<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a time of favour God has answered us, on a day of salvation God has helped us,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

so that what is right;
I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,
to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

so that what is right will also be established for all people and the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so that what has been laid to waste will be renewed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

so that what is lost from our pasts, will be redeemed and renewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this is God\u2019s good Will towards all of us who live on this fragile planet earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that is what God gives us to teach the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

about Grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday 24 November 2022 Looking afar we may search for the \u2018colour of life\u2019 elsewhere, Doch God has put all blessings among us. Isaiah 49:8 Thus says the Lord:In a time of favour I have answered you, on a day of salvation I have helped you;I have kept you and given you as a covenant … Continue reading “Looking or Already Seeing?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21,34,39,70,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall","category-holy","category-sacramental-mystic","category-sky","category-sunrise","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740","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=9740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9742,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}