{"id":9868,"date":"2022-12-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2022-12-25T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T18:29:48","slug":"well-whadaya-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9868","title":{"rendered":"Well, Whadaya Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sunday 25 December 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/25.Ps20221225_172042924.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/25.Ps20221225_172042924.jpg 288w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/25.Ps20221225_172042924-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Fresh Christmas Snow Covers the Ground<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em> as Grey Covers the Skies,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Yet Bright is Christ\u2019s Light This Day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Joshua 24:23<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>He said, \u2018Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John 1:18<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father\u2019s heart, who has made him known.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of ways to orient one\u2019s life,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>only one is a living God, born among us to poor parents, from a most unabashedly scandalous pregnancy, and heralded by the lowest of the lowest of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus it is we are thought to be fools, and yet we continue as servants to the poor, the sick, the needy, the imprisoned. We continue to humbly begin our ways in the world remembering not our own greatness, but God\u2019s in dealing with our great sins. We continue to live in a peace from out of time and place while conflicts storm around us. We continue to effect change, not through power, might, and force, but through humility, compassion, love, and forgiveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We continue to live life to it\u2019s fullest, sharing that fullness with all we encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The snow may be fresh, but our orientation in life is as old as the universe: it is God-given from the beginning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and the Word<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>was made<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>flesh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>live among us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 25 December 2022 Fresh Christmas Snow Covers the Ground as Grey Covers the Skies, Yet Bright is Christ\u2019s Light This Day. Joshua 24:23 He said, \u2018Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.\u2019 John 1:18 No one has ever seen God. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Well, Whadaya Know?&#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":[83,21,34,68,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dark-and-light","category-holy","category-sacramental-mystic","category-snow-weather","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","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=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9870,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions\/9870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}