{"id":1166,"date":"2023-10-20T14:31:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2023-11-04T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T15:21:26","slug":"miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Miracles-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Miracles-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Miracles-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/krista.longeway.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Miracles-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Colossians 1:16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible\u2026all things were created through him and for him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">We often take for granted those things that are common in our world.&nbsp; We look around at the things outside &#8211; the trees, the flowers, the sea, the sky, and we see them as ordinary instead of seeing them for the miracle that they are.&nbsp; For each thing that grows, each thing in the natural world that we enjoy, was planted there by God\u2019s hand.&nbsp; The ordinary becomes miraculous when it is viewed through this lens.&nbsp; Similarly, each human life, long before it is born, has its beginning in God\u2019s loving hands.&nbsp; Our soul, though invisible to all but God, is rooted in God\u2019s love, beginning and later returning to him in heaven. For myself, when my mom passed away, it was a great comfort to me to know that my mother\u2019s soul was returning to a loving God.&nbsp; This is the same God who created and cares for us from the beginning. For, as humans, we are part of this marvelous creation, and when we look closer we can see that all life and death are an interconnected circle that begins and ends with God\u2019s hand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-black-color has-electric-grass-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\">\n\n<strong>Miracles<\/strong>\r\nBy Krista Longeway\n\r\nNo human hand is capable of creating\r\nThe tiny spark of life within a living thing\r\nAlthough by my hand tiny new seeds can be sown\r\nAnd in time these seeds sprout and then new plants are grown\r\nI wonder where did the first seed of life begin?\r\n\r\nWe see new life begin when babies are first born\r\nAnd we watch it pass when it\u2019s time for us to mourn\r\nYet we did not place the soul in this little one\r\nNor did we see the soul leave when life\u2019s day was done\r\nI wonder where did this first human soul begin?\r\n\r\nThough we try, we can never fully understand\r\nThe way life is planted by God\u2019s wonderous hand\r\nSo common that they seem like ordinary things \r\nLife is sown in a series of miracles that brings\r\nA circle of life that only God can begin.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colossians 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible\u2026all things were created through him and for him. 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