{"id":1951,"date":"2018-01-03T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:34:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T17:34:36","slug":"happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/03\/happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Dedicated to my babies!!!<\/h6>\n<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1952\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26165413_1805214322825192_3910429596952326656_n-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26165413_1805214322825192_3910429596952326656_n-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26165413_1805214322825192_3910429596952326656_n-768x790.jpg 768w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26165413_1805214322825192_3910429596952326656_n-700x720.jpg 700w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26165413_1805214322825192_3910429596952326656_n-800x823.jpg 800w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/26165413_1805214322825192_3910429596952326656_n.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/>\u00a0Photo by MS O&#8217;Neill<\/h6>\n<h6>Showers of raindrops are like, tears<\/h6>\n<h6>That clings and washes away all fear<\/h6>\n<h6>Happy little droplets that let me know you are here\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>And when I gaze upon you, I smile and all is clear<\/h6>\n<h6>Clear as the raindrops that are hanging, on leaves as I see them appear<\/h6>\n<h6>My heart sings a morning song, I am happy all the day long\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Raindrops fresh and clean<\/h6>\n<h6>Tell the world that all will remain\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>When hurts and disappointments fill your life with pain\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>All will be washed away by the clear, gentle, rain!<\/h6>\n<h6>Leaving not even one tiny stain\u2026<\/h6>\n<h6>Raindrops, sent by God, bringing happiness, again!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill January 3, 2018<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>The Soul Takes Flight Poetry by: MS O&#8217;Neill<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong><em>Psalm 51:7-15 The Message (MSG)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><em>Soak me in your laundry and I\u2019ll come out clean, scrub me and I\u2019ll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don\u2019t look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don\u2019t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I\u2019ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I\u2019ll let loose with your praise.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dedicated to my babies!!! \u00a0Photo by MS O&#8217;Neill Showers of raindrops are like, tears That clings and washes away all fear Happy little droplets that let me know you are here\u2026 And when I gaze upon you, I smile and all is clear Clear as the raindrops that are hanging, on leaves as I&#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-1951","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-vt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","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=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}