{"id":8610,"date":"2025-03-07T19:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/?p=8610"},"modified":"2025-03-09T21:52:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:52:26","slug":"dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/?p=8610","title":{"rendered":"Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am dust.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conceived, formed and animated by the love of Yahweh for his glory and joy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, I am dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dust with agency. I have the choice of whether to walk in the dust-like things of this earth or to rise above to the ethereal and eternal things of my Father.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I often choose wrong because&#8230;I am but dust.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, I am adored. I am purposed. I am created, empowered and transformed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From dust to dust. From nothing to everything. Death to life. Now to eternity. His.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, in the middle\u2026in this in between time\u2026in the yes but not yet before this dust finds its\u2019 eternal form, I will fancy myself to be stardust. Dust that lives and moves in the glorious presence of He who created galaxies, worlds, oceans, creatures\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dust. All of it. Various forms of beauty. Often broken. Always known. Eternity condensed into today. A promise waiting to be realized. A glimpse, no matter how brief, of the goodness and graciousness of the God who stoops down low and, gathers up the earth in his heavenly hands\u2026breathes the breath of life into it\u2026 and says, \u201cI love you. Let\u2019s dance to the end of love.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am dust.&nbsp; Conceived, formed and animated by the love of Yahweh for his glory and joy.&nbsp; Yet, I am dust. Dust with agency. I have the choice of whether to walk in the dust-like things of this earth or to rise above to the ethereal and eternal things of my Father.&nbsp; I often choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[115,128,760,175,217,232,274,759,331,444],"class_list":["post-8610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-creation","tag-death","tag-dust","tag-eternity","tag-forgiveness","tag-god","tag-hope","tag-humanity","tag-life","tag-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenlawson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}