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What picture will you paint? What story will you tell?<\/h6>\n
Life can be sweet, or, life can be hell\u2026<\/h6>\n
Walking the road in torment from wounds that will not heal<\/h6>\n
Mowing down every person you meet by pushing them down the hill\u2026<\/h6>\n
Living with bitterness is such a bitter pill.<\/h6>\n
Lies and deceit will keep you tangled and trapped until truth is but a fairytale<\/h6>\n
There is only one who can set you free\u2026from sailing on this sea, of broken shattered dreams\u2026<\/h6>\n
The unforgiving words you weave upon your tapestry\u2026will keep you in darkness; they will never let you leave.<\/h6>\n
You will be lost and all alone\u2026in a world where you don’t belong\u2026<\/h6>\n
Open your heart and you will hear, the Redeemer sing,\u00a0you a love song,<\/h6>\n
O my beloved, I\u2019ve called to you for so long\u2026no more tears, no more fears, I\u2019ve come to show you the way home\u2026my love will guide you in the darkest night\u2026my light will lead you when you have no sight\u2026my grace will sustain you when you fall down\u2026come my treasure you are no longer bound\u2026peace will be your fortress and joy will be your crown\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
The wounds will heal, leaving only a scar, a remembrance of how, He brought you so far\u2026<\/h6>\n
He is truth, and for the first time in your life\u2026there are no lies, no deception, no strife\u2026<\/h6>\n
The Holy Scrolls,<\/em> unfold, before your hopeful eyes\u2026bringing light to the darkness that will answer your whys\u2026<\/h6>\n
Broken beginnings are no more\u2026<\/h6>\n
Old things are passed away,<\/h6>\n
Behold, you are now adored,<\/h6>\n
A new beginning is given, because, you decided to follow the Lord!<\/h6>\n
Broken beginnings have been restored!<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill January 11, 2018<\/h6>\n
The Soul Takes Flight Poetry by: MS O’Neill<\/strong><\/h6>\n
2 Corinthians 5:16-20 <\/em>The Message (MSG)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
Because of this decision we don\u2019t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don\u2019t look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We\u2019re Christ\u2019s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God\u2019s work of making things right between them. We\u2019re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he\u2019s already a friend with you.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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