{"id":9833,"date":"2022-12-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9833"},"modified":"2022-12-10T11:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:15:07","slug":"welcome-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9833","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday 10 December 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n
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As many as the grains<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

of all the snows<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

are the people<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God welcomes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

home.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaiah 66:22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your descendants and your name remain.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 8:11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tell you, many will come from east and west and will eat with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

As antisemitism spawns like unwanted weeds around every corner we ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do we not take note?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do we not stop it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do we tolerate it as ho-hum?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do we think it is so old it cannot really hurt anyone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do we think that Jews are power people so it does not hurt them (meaning we think racism is only possible when it\u2019s against people of no power?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly do we think that abuse (including racism) cannot be part of what people with \u2018less power\u2019 do to people with \u2018more power\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Racism and all kinds of abuse are possible by all people against all people, and it\u2019s wrong every time, all the time, in all circumstances!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means that an indigenous person who abuses a middle aged, white male is still abusing another person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means that a woman who lies to the police and the courts to put a man in the sights of the police and in court puts the man in jail, still lies and abuses the man, the institutions of the police and the courts, and she abuses all women and men who work for justice (based on truth) for all people, no matter who they are (gender, race, religion, or any other category.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God welcomes our ancestors, including all the children of Abraham and Sarah, and all the children not of Abraham and Sarah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God welcomes all of us, all people, or all a times and all places, into God\u2019s home, made for us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s God\u2019s broad merciful, gracious, forgiving, life-giving and generous attitude towards us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When are we going to adopt that as ours for other people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well some of us already have, namely the saints of all time, including today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, today, what are we going to do with this attitude of God that God gives to us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday 10 December 2022 As many as the grains of all the snows are the people God welcomes home. Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your descendants and your name remain. Matthew 8:11 I tell you, many … Continue reading “Welcome Home?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,61,62,68,71,51,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-and-light","category-imagine","category-injustice","category-snow-weather","category-sunset","category-winter","category-women-mens-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833","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=9833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9840,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions\/9840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}