{"id":1794,"date":"2017-12-18T09:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2017-12-18T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:30:03","slug":"the-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/18\/the-light-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1795\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/light-of-heaven-300x214.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/light-of-heaven-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/light-of-heaven.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6>How dark is darkness? It\u2019s black and void\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>There\u2019s no sight; no sound<\/h6>\n<h6>No light to lead the way\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Searching for what, we cannot say\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>For we\u2019ve never seen the light of day\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Never knew the brightness, of a single light, to guide our unknowing way\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>We stray\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Shielding our eyes from something just ahead\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>An awakening from, the living dead\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Someone comes to carry the light\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Dispelling the darkness from our bed\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Squinting, we shake, our weary head\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>A tiny light is shed\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>What is this, we cry in delight\u2026we can see within the dead of night\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Light!!<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Our souls take flight\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>No more groping or stumbling in the dark\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>One tiny flame, one little spark, light enters the void<\/h6>\n<h6>Darkness, destroyed<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>What is Light?<\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Not seeing, we see\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>This new thing, how can it be\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>We\u2019ve stepped into the light<\/h6>\n<h6>Now all has become so bright\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>No more fear, no more fright\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Jesus stepped out of heaven, and brought us, Light!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill December 18, 2017<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>John 8:12 English Standard Version (ESV) <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>I Am the Light of the World<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, \u201cI am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>John 8:12 <\/em><em>The Message (MSG) <\/em><em>You\u2019re Missing God in All This<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Jesus once again addressed them: \u201cI am the world\u2019s Light. No one who follows me stumbles around in the darkness. I provide plenty of light to live in.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Inspired by Hanukkah, Bodie Thoene&#8217;s, &#8216;Things that matter!&#8217;<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1796 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/01775-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/01775-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/01775.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How dark is darkness? It\u2019s black and void\u2026 There\u2019s no sight; no sound No light to lead the way\u2026 Searching for what, we cannot say\u2026 For we\u2019ve never seen the light of day\u2026 Never knew the brightness, of a single light, to guide our unknowing way\u2026 We stray\u2026 Shielding our eyes from something just ahead\u2026&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-sW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}