{"id":9916,"date":"2023-01-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9916"},"modified":"2023-01-05T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T17:47:22","slug":"lifelong-living-to-the-fullest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9916","title":{"rendered":"Lifelong Living to the Fullest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Thursday 5 January 2023<\/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\/2023\/01\/05.Ps20230102_000319638.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/05.Ps20230102_000319638.jpg 288w, https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/05.Ps20230102_000319638-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 85vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>God\u2019s Blessings Give Life It\u2019s Fullness,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Even in Our Darkest Times,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>as the Moon Brightens Our Night.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Psalms 71:17<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Luke 2:29-31<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Simeon <\/em><em>said: <\/em><em>Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words of Grace For Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living to the fullest may mean hard partying, drinking, drugs, and sex for some. Or working hard to make so much money one cannot spend it all and playing even harder trying to spend it. Or just about everything under the sun in the extreme to the extreme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All that as if one\u2019s actions, accomplishments and record were worth something at all, when measure by the one measure that counts at all, God\u2019s measure, our human actions, accomplishments and record are worth next nothing, especially compared to what God does, accomplishes and establishes through us and without us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fullest life we can live is to continually, humbly, give God thanks and praise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Living life to it\u2019s fullest in this way we can be ready to greet our death as Simeon did, with thanks and praise for all God\u2019s gifts, especially the gift of God\u2019s Son living as one of us, God\u2019s communication to us that is so clear we can tell the story over and over again and marvel at God\u2019s Grace and Love for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 5 January 2023 God\u2019s Blessings Give Life It\u2019s Fullness, Even in Our Darkest Times, as the Moon Brightens Our Night. Psalms 71:17 O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. Luke 2:29-31 Simeon said: Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/?p=9916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lifelong Living to the Fullest&#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":[18,88,27,64,34,47,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace","category-love-and-hope","category-moon","category-night","category-sacramental-mystic","category-trees","category-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916","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=9916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mysticphoto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}