{"id":1852,"date":"2017-12-23T21:24:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T02:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1852"},"modified":"2017-12-23T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T02:24:23","slug":"the-grass-may-be-greener-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/23\/the-grass-may-be-greener-but\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grass May be Greener But\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1853\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheep-and-grass-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheep-and-grass-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheep-and-grass-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheep-and-grass-700x467.png 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheep-and-grass-800x533.png 800w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sheep-and-grass.png 831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6>Looking around I find I\u2019m lost<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019ve wandered off at a ghastly cost<\/h6>\n<h6>Where are the others I think as I cross?<\/h6>\n<h6>To the pasture on the other side\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The greener grass I wanted, I needed, I had to have\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Not heeding the shepherd or obeying his voice\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Now I\u2019m trapped all alone with a terrible choice<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019m only trying to feed my belly\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>But now my knees shake like jelly<\/h6>\n<h6>Bah, I cry, Bah, Oh please\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Bah, Shepherd, come rescue me\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Coming face to face with the worst of my enemies\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Why didn\u2019t I listen, to the Shepherd\u2019s commands\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019m just a poor sheep I don\u2019t understand\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019m weak and meager not worth very much\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Now it looks like I\u2019ll be Mr. Wolf\u2019s afternoon lunch\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>A whirling sound buzzed by my ear\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The wolf ran off he was much a feared\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The Shepherd\u2019s rod came just in time\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>The greener grass will make you whine\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>He\u2019s all I want and all I need\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>I\u2019m just a sheep a humble breed\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Good Shepherd guides and gives and leads<\/h6>\n<h6>All us sheep if we\u2019ll just believe\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>And after today, I\u2019ll never stray\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Thank you Good Shepherd is all I could say!!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~M. S. O\u2019Neill December 23, 2017<\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Matthew 18:12-13 Good News Translation (GNT) <\/em><\/strong><em>\u201cWhat do you think a man does who has one hundred sheep and one of them gets lost? He will leave the other ninety-nine grazing on the hillside and go and look for the lost sheep. When he finds it, I tell you, he feels far happier over this one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not get lost.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking around I find I\u2019m lost I\u2019ve wandered off at a ghastly cost Where are the others I think as I cross? To the pasture on the other side\u2026 The greener grass I wanted, I needed, I had to have\u2026 Not heeding the shepherd or obeying his voice\u2026 Now I\u2019m trapped all alone with a&#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-1852","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-tS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","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=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}