{"id":9871,"date":"2022-12-26T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2022-12-26T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T00:13:20","slug":"god-works-not-with-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9871","title":{"rendered":"God Works Not With Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">but with us.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Monday 26 December 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/26A.PS20221201_221457706.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/26A.PS20221201_221457706.jpg 512w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/26A.PS20221201_221457706-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>We\u2019d Like to Think We Are Perfect<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em> And Others Make the Pollution For God to Deal With!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/26B.PS20221201_221441625.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/26B.PS20221201_221441625.jpg 512w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/26B.PS20221201_221441625-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>But If We Look Up Close and Are Honest<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>We Are Also So Broken,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>and Only By Grace Do We Live,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>But Oh How We Live<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Blessed By God\u2019s Grace.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>First Kings 8:66<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents, joyful and in good spirits because of all the goodness that the Lord had shown to his servant David and to his people Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Luke 2:16-17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known what had been told them about this child;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God Speaks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things Happen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unexpected, Inexplicable, Wondrous Things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God Acts,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which is the same as God speaking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we are astounded (if we care to notice at all) how God works in and among and for the poor, the outcasts, the lowest of the lowest, and the least remarkable people on earth to carry a message of Grace, Love, and Peace,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>from God to us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like shepherds, we get to go<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to go out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to go out and tell the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what great goodness, mercy, and blessings God has shown us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>simple<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>poor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>outcast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>broken and sinful<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>folk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>but with us. Monday 26 December 2022 We\u2019d Like to Think We Are Perfect And Others Make the Pollution For God to Deal With! &#8230; &#8230; But If We Look Up Close and Are Honest We Are Also So Broken, and Only By Grace Do We Live, But Oh How We Live Blessed By God\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God Works Not With Perfect&#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":[55,56,18,23,30,38,39,67,70,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-cold","category-grace","category-lake","category-poverty-homelessness","category-simple-beauty","category-sky","category-smoke-weather","category-sunrise","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871","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=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9875,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions\/9875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}